Although Ireland signed the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court more than a decade ago, it has yet to ratify it. Ratification requires a referendum...

The Patents (Amendment) Act 2012 has been signed into law and now requires the making of the necessary commencement orders by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

Although the Trade Mark Clearing House is now open for registration of trade mark holders’ rights, the proposed 23 April date for the commencement of contracting with the first successfully examined gTLD applicants was not met and this process will now begin in June.

Eircom, Ireland’s largest Internet service provider, has reportedly agreed to implement a graduated "three strikes" program against illegal peer-to-peer downloaders.

On 6 December 2012, the Irish recording industry issued proceedings against five Irish ISPs; UPC, Vodafone, Digiweb, Imagine and 3, seeking that the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay.

In the May edition of IP Ezine we discussed the progress of the Unitary Patent System in Europe which has been pushed through in record time, after a gestation period of around 40 years, under the EU’s "enhanced cooperation" procedure.

The Government has signed a statutory instrument transposing the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market into Irish law.

The article below dealing with patents is the first in a series of articles authored by Deirdre Kilroy and Michael Finn analysing the impact of Brexit in the area of intellectual property.

In order to assess whether the use of data in training AI would amount to copyright infringement, we need to understand the nature of the data collected, the way in which it is stored...

Today is World IP Day, a day on which we celebrate intellectual property and the innovators and creators of the world.

On 6 February 2018, Advocate General Szpunar (AG) delivered his second opinion on Christian Louboutin's shoes trademark

This article considers the issue of AI authorship in the EU, identifies how this issue is problematic, and sets out to ascertain how much human involvement is required under EU law for a work to qualify for copyright protection.

Recently, we attended to a domain complaint for a client where various domain names incorporated the client's trade mark.

The European Commission (the "Commission") launched a public consultation on 12 October 2017 (the "Consultation") seeking views on proposed reforms on certain aspects of patent ...

Since the leapfrog in progress last year towards a unified patent system, progress has been on hold pending agreement on the location of the proposed Unified Patent Court. In late June the European Council overcame this impasse.

The Irish recording industry successfully obtained an order from the Commercial Court on 12 June 2013 compelling a number of Internet service providers to block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay.

Last year saw the Madrid International Trademark System reach 125 years in operation. Since its inception in 1891 the system has seen continued success and growth.

If you are reading this on an internet browser you may be relieved to know that you are not infringing copyright law.

The UDRP is to be reviewed in the overall context of a broader review of all rights protection mechanisms.

The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers anticipates making the first of around 1900 new gTLDs available in mid-2013.