Donald R. Dunner was a partner in the Washington, D.C. firm, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.; graduate, Purdue University and Georgetown University Law School; argued more than 160 cases at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court; President, AIPLA (1979-80); Chair, ABA IPL Section (1995-96); member, ABA House of Delegates (2002 - present); past Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Federal Circuit (1982-92); co-author of Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: Practice and Procedure and past co-author of Patent Law Perspectives; NJIPL Jefferson Medal recipient (2004); International Lawyer of the Year for Patents by Who's Who Legal (2005); 2010 Inductee to Intellectual Asset Management magazine's IP Hall of Fame; Fellow of American College of Trial Lawyers and American Academy of Appellate Lawyers; named by National Law Journal as one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America (2000, 2013); listed in Best Lawyers in America® for ten years or longer; listed in Legal Times' "Greatest Washington Lawyers in the Past 30 Years" (2008); recipient of the AIPLA Board of Directors' Award (2011); George Washington University Law School Adjunct Professor of the Year for 2012; 2012 Linn Inn Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2012 IP Jurisprudence Award of Hispanic National Bar Association; Sedona Lifetime Achievement Award (2002); 2013 Samuel E. Gates Litigation Award presented by American College of Trial Lawyers.