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Areas of Practice
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Representative Experience
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Professional Background
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Professional/Civic Activities
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Speaking Engagements
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Education
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Additional Information
Areas of Practice
Dominic is a partner in the Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights & Related Transactions, the Marketing & Advertising and the Sports practice groups of K&L Gates’ London office.
His practice focuses on IP, technology and media disputes. He has extensive experience of all aspects of commercial litigation, including injunction proceedings, arbitration, international litigation and alternative dispute resolution. His clients include: media organisations (AOL, Home Box Office Inc and the Press Association); sports governing bodies (PGA European Tour); international brand owners (World Wrestling Entertainment; IT suppliers (BEA Systems Inc); on-line distributors (CDWOW!) and advertising and marketing agencies.
Dominic is principal advisor to the MCCA, a leading marketing and advertising agency representative body, and is responsible for the operation of the MCCA Pitch Protection Service and MCCA Legal Advice Service, both available to over forty member agencies.
Drawing on his dispute resolution experience, Dominic regularly advises on contractual and commercial issues arising in IP, technology, media and sports, including licensing and merchandising agreements, sponsorship and advertising contracts, advertising copy clearance issues, image rights exploitation, internet network services agreements and major IT infrastructure projects. He advises on pre-contractual negotiations and drafting, dispute avoidance and resolution during the course of contractual relationships, and on renegotiation and termination rights.
Representative Experience
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Claims of parallel importing against an internet CD retailer brought by the BPI
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Copyright and database right infringement by the unauthorised use of sporting results on the internet
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Trademark infringement and passing off by the use of trade marks as metatags and hidden text
Search engine key word advertising; design right infringement
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Passing off and unfair competition following the launch of a major new soft drinks brand
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Breach of confidence by the unauthorised use of creative ideas conceived by an advertising agency
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Comparative advertising disputes between market leading ISPs
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Claims for breach of supply agreement for telecoms network services
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Disputes over broadcasting rights for major sporting events
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Disputes between a boxing promoter and world championship boxer over contract obligations
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Sponsorship agreements regarding Formula 1 racing teams
Professional Background
Professional/Civic Activities
Speaking Engagements
- 'Post BHB v William Hill: The ensuing litigation', K&L Gates client seminar, September 2005;
- 'Trade Mark and Branding in the technology environment' IT Law Summer School Downing College, Cambridge University, August 2005;
- 'Sports Law and the Media' , Management Forum Media Law Conference, January 2005;
- 'The European Copyright Directive - Practical Issues for Service Providers', Management Forum Copyright Conference, June 2004;
- Image Rights' , IMG/Management Forum Sports Law Conference, January 2004;
- Ambush Marketing, IMG/Management Forum Sports Law Conference, January 2004;
- Protecting and Exploiting Value in the Creative Idea (MCCA Advertising Law Conference, October 2003;
- 'Image Rights - Balancing the Interests of Player' , Club and Governing Body (SSAS Conference, June 2003;
- 'Exclusion and Limitation Clauses in IT contracts' , NGJ Seminar, September 2002;
- 'Maximising Profit Through Exploitation of the Sports Brand', EuroLegal Sports Law Conference, June 2002;
- 'Frank Warren v Richie Woodhall - a mediation case study', July 2000.
Education
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LSF,
College of Law, London
(1993)
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B.A.,
University of Sheffield
(1990)
History and Economics (Dual Hons)
Additional Information
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“Searching for answers: Search engine functionality and infringement concerns,” Copyright World, October 2005
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“The Impact of the Human Rights Act on Sports Governing Bodies,” Legal Week, November 2000
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“First UK Judgment relating to trade marks and metatags,” elaw Asia, July 2000
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“Trade Mark Infringement and the use of Metatags,” PLC, July 2000
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“Limiting Damage on the World Wide Web,” Legal Week, June 2000.
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“Defining the Rights to Sport,” Legal Week, December 1999
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“Frank Warren v Richie Woodhall - a mediation case study,” Sports Business, August 1999
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”Pulling punches through Mediation,” Commercial Lawyer, August 1999
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