In an increasingly globalised world, most business owners will be familiar with the prospect of planning an export strategy for their particular product or service. As part of this, it would be wise to consider Intellectual Property in and amongst the myriad matters to be addressed. M&D will spend some time in the coming months [...]
The High Court has granted an interlocutory injunction restraining the use of a trade mark that was alleged to infringe the trade mark of a State-owned Airline Company. Ms Justice Nuala Butler considered that the balance of justice favoured granting the injunction. The court had to considered several issues which arose during the proceedings, including [...]
Cherrie Stewart, Chartered Trade Mark Attorney in Ansons, part of the M&D group, has recently contributed an insightful article to the CITMA Review on the current situation of Intellectual Property in Northern Ireland. With the Northern Irish Protocol now in place following the implementation of Brexit, the implications for IP have become ever more complex. [...]
What is a Patent? A patent represents a powerful intellectual property right, and is an exclusive monopoly granted by a statute to an inventor for a limited pre-specified period of time subject to the fair and complete disclosure of the invention. It provides an enforceable legal right which prevents others from copying, making, selling or [...]
We are delighted to announce that Carla MacLachlan, Director and Trade Mark attorney, has been elected to the APTMA Executive Council and appointed as Secretary at the most recent AGM. APTMA is the Association of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys and represents virtually all registered Patent Attorneys and most Trade Mark Attorneys in Ireland. It [...]
WIPO have published a Technology Trends report on Assistive Technology which can be found here. It identifies a list of emerging assistive technologies and has analyzed related patenting activity. They have made it simple to assess the wide range of assistive technologies, meant to support people with functional limitations, by creating an interactive and accessible [...]
In our last article, as part of our World IP Day series, we examined what IP means for SMEs. Today we will look at the value of IP for SMEs and as you will see, the value can be great. According to a WIPO report on Intangible Capital in Global Value Chains, “IP and other [...]
The theme for this year’s World IP day is ‘IP & SMEs: Taking your ideas to market’ and we want to share with you some information about IP and how to protect the products and services you are taking to the market. Working as we are in the area of intellectual property (‘IP’), we get [...]
We are delighted to announce our next webinar for World IP Day. Book your spot on Eventbrite Peter MacLachlan, Trade Mark Attorney and Director, and Denis McCarthy, Patent Attorney and Director, will be joined by Joe Doyle, Intellectual Property Manager with Enterprise Ireland. Together they will discuss the basics of IP for SMEs, how to [...]
We would like to draw attention to the Ideas Powered for Business Fund which is a European Commission initiative implemented by the EUIPO to financially support European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and help them access their intellectual property rights. There are two elements to the fund. Beneficiaries can get 50% off the basic application [...]
