Court Opinion

ID: 9472810
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 04:11:40.872897+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:43:09.829652
License: Public Domain

FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge,
concurring in the result.
I concur in the result the court reaches in this case of denying the motion to transfer this appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. I would base the denial of the motion on a narrow ground the court apparently abjures: that since the district court’s order did not necessarily sever or separate the copyright claim from the other claims (both patent and nonpatent) for separate trial and decision, this is a case in which there is no doubt that the jurisdiction of the district court rests in part on 28 U.S.C. § 1338. As the court points out, the district court has not indicated what the consequences of its separation will be; it is unclear whether the copyright issue will be tried and decided separately from the other issues, or whether the court will treat the copyright aspect as a separate case or as merely one part of a case containing multiple claims.
It is uncertain whether the district court is treating this as a single case despite the separation order. There is no basis upon which that order may properly be viewed as somehow ousting us of our exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal in a ease in which the jurisdiction of the district court rests in part on 28 U.S.C. § 1338. The motion to transfer the appeal to the Seventh Circuit thus must be denied.
I see no reason to discuss in the order denying the motion the numerous and far-ranging issues the court addresses. It is time enough to consider those other issues in future eases in which they are directly presented and must be decided. I would issue only a narrow order denying the motion to transfer on the ground I have stated.