Denis McCarthy will be attending the FICPI 14th Open Forum in Sorrento which is taking place from October 2nd-5th. FICPI is the federation of international intellectual property attorneys in private practice. There will be many speakers from around the world who will address a host of issues including cross-border patent infringement litigation in the EU and protecting inventions [...]

Dr. Yvonne McKeown will be attending the 'SPC Law and Practice 2013: All you need to know' seminar in London on Tuesday 2nd July 2013.  This seminar will look at how national patent offices are implementing the decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Neurim Pharmaceuticals (1991) Ltd v Comptroller-General of [...]

A joint seminar organized by the Irish Patents Office (IPO) and the Community Trade Mark Office (OHIM) took place on June 4th in Dublin  and was attended by Cliff Kennedy, Norman MacLachlan, Robert Hayes, Peter MacLachlan and Jonathan White. There were presentations by, amongst others, the President of the OHIM, Mr António Campinos and Mr Dermot Doyle [...]

Norman MacLachlan is attending ECTA's 32nd Annual Conference in Bucharest, Romania which is being held on the 19th-22nd June – the first major intellectual property event to be organised in that city.  For 18 years prior to his stepping down as Treasurer in 2006, Norman was Treasurer-General and a Member of the Management Committee of ECTA,  the [...]

Bernadette Walsh and Peter MacLachlan attended the 135th INTA Meeting in Dallas, Texas from 4th-8th May 2013.  Also at the Conference were IP experts from more than 140 countries with talks on a variety of trade mark related topics covering many geographic regions and industries. The keynote address was by Jerry Jones Owner, President and General [...]