Profile
Mr. Dillon’s practice focuses on patent, trademark and general intellectual property matters primarily in the electronics and software industries. His client list includes IBM, Nortel Networks as well as numerous other high-tech firms, small companies and individual inventors. With 25 years experience as an intellectual property lawyer, Mr. Dillon has written more than 800 patent applications and prosecuted several thousand patents.

Mr. Dillon was appointed to a 3-year term (2003-2006) by the Secretary of Commerce as one of nine voting members of the Patent Public Advisory Committee of the United States Patent Office.

In Chambers & Partners’ America’s Leading Business Lawyers 2004, Mr. Dillon was named among Texas’ leading intellectual property attorneys and applauded in it by contributing clients and colleagues for his “ability to grasp new technologies and inventions at an amazing speed.”  In 2000, Texas Lawyer tapped Mr. Dillon as one of the “Go-To Counsel for Cutting Edge Companies in Texas.”  The Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of Texas presented him with the 1999-2000 Chair Award for “outstanding contributions to the practice of patent law.”

Mr. Dillon is an AV-rated lawyer licensed to practice law in Texas and an inventor of U.S. Patent No. 5,891,021.  He is also a prolific author and frequent speaker on the subject of patent law and intellectual property related industry issues.

Practices
Intellectual Property
Electronic Commerce
Telecommunications

Admissions
State Bar of Texas
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuits
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Education
J.D., John Marshall Law School
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University

Publications
"The Patentability of Speech Technology Inventions"
Speech Technology, Fall, 1981

"The Client Who Wants a Patent: Initial Interview and Problem Recognition"
Intellectual Property Law Institute, 1993

"Recent Developments in Patent Law"
Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal, 1993

"Means Plus Function Language After Donaldson--A Sword or a Shield?"
Intellectual Property Law Institute, 1995

"Proposed Patent Office Rules"
Advanced Intellectual Property Law Courts, 1997

"Advanced Patent Law Institute"
University of Texas Law School, 1997, Co-Chair

"Welcome to the New User-Friendly PTO"
Intellectual Property Law Institute, 1998

Co-Author "Software Patentability-Not As New As You Think"
Texas Lawyer, Vol. 14, No. 27, September 14, 1998

"The Patentability of Software Inventions"
University of Texas Law School Advanced Patent Law Institute, 1998

"Appeals Before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences Is Justice Delayed Justice Denied?"
Intellectual Property Law Institute, 1999

"Board of Patent Appeals Practice"
University of Texas Law School Advanced Patent Law Institute, 1999

"Patent Reform Culminates in American Inventor's Protection Act"
Texas Lawyer, Vol. 16, No. 27, September 18, 2000

"The American Inventors Protection Act: One Year Later"
University of Texas Law School Advanced Patent Law Institute, 2000

"Prosecution Implications of Festo and Johnson & Johnston"
University of Texas Law School Advanced Patent Law Institute, November 1-2, 2001

"Current Issues in Patent Prosecution"
Houston Intellectual Property Law Association, 17th Annual Institute on Intellectual Property Law, November 8-10, 2001

"The Not So New Rules"
The Center for American and International Law, 39th Annual Institute on Intellectual Property Law, November 12-13, 2001

"Building a Patent Portfolio Cost Effectively"
Third Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference, The University of Texas School of Law, February 28-March 1, 2002

"Patent Prosecution Implications of Festo"
State Bar of Texas, Intellectual Property Section Symposium, June 14, 2002

"Doctrine of Equivalents, Design-Arounds and Festo-Patent Prosecution Considerations"
University of Texas Law School Advanced Patent Law Institute, October 31-November 1, 2002

"A Tangible Plan for Intangible Assets"
Texas Lawyer, Vol. 18, No. 49, February 3, 2003

“What’s Happening at the Patent Office”
State Bar of Texas, Intellectual Property Law Course, March 4, 2004

Affiliations
Past Chair, Intellectual Property Law Section, State Bar of Texas
Past President, Dallas Fort Worth Patent Association
Past Chair, Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee, IP Law Section, State Bar of Texas
Member, College of the State Bar of Texas
Member, Arbitrator’s Panel-American Arbitration Association
Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
Member, Austin Intellectual Property Law Association