• November 5, 2014
    UK Intellectual Property Office successful in passing off action

    The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has settled an action [...]

  • October 30, 2014
    Supreme Court dismiss appeal in Karen Millen v Dunnes Stores – Community Design Rights

    Following up on our post in June this year on [...]

  • October 6, 2014
    PTMG Conference October 8th-11th

    The 89th Conference of the Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group is [...]

  • October 1, 2014
    CIPA Congress 2nd-3rd October 2014

    Isabel Meenan from our Belfast office will be attending the [...]

  • August 28, 2014
    AIPPI Congress in Toronto

    Denis McCarthy will be attending the  44th AIPPI Congress in [...]

  • August 6, 2014
    Medicinal product assessment: a new defence to patent infringement in Ireland and the UK

    The Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 and the Legislative [...]

  • July 25, 2014
    Update on the Change in Ireland’s Court Structure

    In our news post around this time last year here [...]

  • July 21, 2014
    Further searches at EPO

    Flexibility in prosecuting certain European patent applications is currently restricted [...]

  • July 3, 2014
    Kevlar TM Inventor Stephanie Kwolek Passes Away

    We mark the recent passing of an outstanding scientist and [...]

  • June 20, 2014
    Alice Corp. v CLS Bank International – Software Patents in the US

    Abstract ideas and pure methods of doing business have for some [...]

  • June 19, 2014
    BREAKING NEWS- CJEU decision on Karen Millen V Dunnes Stores – Community Design Rights

    Following up on our post in April 2014 this year, [...]

  • June 17, 2014
    ECTA Annual Conference June 18-21

    The 33rd Annual Conference of ECTA will be taking place [...]