There’s a reason Donald Dunner is known as the dean of the patent bar. He’s argued more than 160 cases at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit—a record—and the Federal Circuit’s chief judge has dubbed him a “superstar advocate.” But at 82, the veteran IP litigator and name partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner has still never argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

That is, until now. “There’s a first time for everything,” Dunner told the Litigation Daily.