According to Image Magazine "just as no two women are the same, neither are any two management styles or creative visions. It is how we choose to innovate, lead, evolve and integrate that determines the success of our teams, businesses and bottom line". Carla MacLachlan from this office joined Image magazine editor-in-chief Melanie Morris, and [...]
According to the INTA’s website, the INTA Annual Meeting continues to grow and over 10,000 delegates from the global IP community will be attending. The website goes on to say: "For the 2017 Annual Meeting, attendees include brand management professionals, C-level executives, general counsel, government officials from IP offices and customs agencies, IP economists, academics, [...]
A trade mark dispute at the EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office) between two well known brands in Ireland has caught the media's attention here. https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2017/0412/867126-supermac-s-trademarks/ The Trade Mark SUPERMAC'S has been in use in Ireland in relation to a fast food chain of restaurants since 1978, and incidentally a favourite haunt of our Prime [...]
Peter MacLachlan attended the All Ireland Business Summit on April 6 2017. The chairperson was former Dragon's Den panelist, Bobby Kerr, of Insomnia Coffee. The conference was a great opportunity to meet the "movers and shakers" of Irish business. On the left is Brenda Woods, Managing Director of The Write Space, Bobby Kerr and Peter [...]
Congratulations to Denis McCarthy who was re-elected to the EPI Council, which organisation is the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office. This is Denis's 24th year on the Council and he topped the poll among the Irish candidates.
The Irish Patents Office has recently handed down a decision in a revocation action on what constitutes "genuine use". Even though the registered proprietor was able to establish that four sales had been made via its website to Ireland during the relevant period, this was not regarded as "genuine use" on the grounds that the [...]
Denis McCarthy will be attending a meeting of the European Patent Practice Committee (EPPC) of the European Patent Institute (EPI) in Munich on November 17 2016. Among the items to be discussed will be the new rules and procedures for filing European patent applications proposed by the European Patent Office while the possible changes to the [...]
Irish Water has had a lot of difficulties of late. Most people will be aware that Irish Water is the State’s national water utility which is responsible for providing water services throughout Ireland. However, upon the formation of this company there were nationwide protests by many people who felt that they should not have to [...]
Knowledge Development Box (KDB) and SMEs What is the KDB? As of 1st January 2016, the KDB offers reduced taxation of income (an effective corporate tax rate of 6.25%) arising from qualifying intellectual property (IP), i.e. patents, copyrighted software and, in relation to smaller companies, other IP that is similar to an invention which could [...]
The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union will have a profound effect on the relationship between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU). “Brexit” raises some fundamental questions relating to trade marks which are currently registered in the EU and therefore at present apply in the UK. It is unlikely that [...]