Law360 recapped the appellate landscape in 2025, including activity at the Federal Circuit. In 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office introduced restrictions on inter partes review proceedings for assessments of patent validity. In a conversation with Law360, Daniel Tucker Finnegan partner and co-leader of the firm’s appellate section, said those restrictions attracted “all sorts of constitutional challenges regarding the office's new practices and procedures for determining whether to institute these proceedings.”
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