Berry v. United States

OPINION and ORDER

BLOCK, Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff appears before the court, pro se, seeking a “within-grade [pay] increase” (“WIGI”), which she claims that her employer, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”), wrongfully withheld from her. Initially, plaintiff appealed the PTO’s WIGI determination to the Merit Systems Protection Board (“MSPB”)1, which subsequently concluded that it lacked jurisdiction over plaintiffs case. Plaintiff then took the fateful step of appealing the MSPB decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on the same day that…