The intellectual property team at Addleshaw Goddard works with a multitude of domestic and international clients on IP matters, with particular expertise in the management of trade mark portfolios. David Hackett heads the practice and regularly offers advice on trade mark issues, along with data protection and privacy law, while Jane Farren handles a variety of contentious and non-contentious IP matters and specialises in domain names, designs, and patents.
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- ‘The team is very well led and quickly identifies the issue at hand and provides an appropriate solution or choice of solutions.’
- ‘We can contact people without difficulty, and there is always a familiarity with our cases. All the team members are exceptionally competent in their manner and dealings with us. We feel our best interests are constantly being met.’
Key clients
- Digital Manufacturing Ireland CLG
- Johnson & Johnson Group
- BMW Ireland
- Electrolux
- Belron/Allglass
- British Sky Broadcasting Group plc
- Vodafone Ireland
- Virgin Media
- Irish Hospice Foundation
- P J Rigney Distillery and International Brands Limited/Gunpowder Irish Gin
- Dawn Farm Foods Limited
- Glenisk Limited
- Boodles
- GPS Insight
- NDC Media
- Connemara Biomedical Holdings
- Aerospace Software Developments
- Q Park
- Walsh Whiskey Distillery
- Golden Pages
- B Braun
- Suicide or Survive
- Gael Linn
- Harvey Norman Trading (Ireland) Limited
- Bath Fitter, Inc
- Darker Still Spirits Company
- Planet Virtue Limited
- Instavolt
- Kepak Group
- Rosderra Limited
- Sunkist Growers
- Pest Pulse Limited
- Society for Chartered Surveyors Ireland
- Marks & Spencer
- Pestle & Mortar
- Applegreen/Petrogas
- Cilag GMBH International
- Ask 4 Broadband
- Tifco Hotel Group
Work highlights
- Advised DMI on a number of novel intellectual property licensing arrangements, including research and development collaboration agreements and intellectual property sharing arrangements under the Creative Commons licensing system.
- Advised Sky on an ongoing basis with respect to its strategy and enforcement and protection of its copyright in commercial sports broadcasts.
- Advised Johnson & Johnson on an ongoing basis on all trade mark issues in Ireland and the EU, including trade mark registrations, trade mark searches, assignments and licensing arrangements.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
David Hackett