Practice Summary
Thomas Dillon is an experienced commercial lawyer, with a particular interest in issues relating to media, including intellectual property and defamation. Following an internship in Los Angeles, he worked for more than eight years in Brussels at the Motion Picture Association, ultimately as Vice-President and Deputy General Counsel EMEA. For nine and a half years he served as Legal Counsellor at the World Intellectual Property Organization, a specialised agency of the United Nations, based in Geneva.
Thomas is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also a registered mediator of the Civil Mediation Council (CMC) and an accredited mediator of the Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation (SCCM).
Reported Cases:
OPEN COUNTRY Trade Mark | [1999] 11 WLUK 785; [2000] E.T.M.R. 942 (Note); [2000] R.P.C. 477
Re Shorinji Kempo, British Shorinji Kempo Federation v Shorinji Kempo Unity [2014] EWHC 285; [2014] All ER (D) 156 (Feb)
