IP for SMEs

• Protect your Intellectual Property from Registration to Rights

Learn about the design registration process of your work in Ireland and the value of IP.

In this one-hour webinar, John Milligan, a Dublin-based Senior Associate Solicitor with Mason Hayes & Curran LLP. will cover:

• The benefits of protecting their creative work for creatives and designers in small to medium studios and agencies, with often limited resources when facing the creative industry’s intense competition.

• A short overview of the protection of intellectual property (design filings in particular) and their benefits, including a comparison of the number of national design filings versus trademark filings in Ireland in the last five years.

• A summary of what is registrable as a design versus what is registrable as a trademark.

• An overview of the design registration process in Ireland, including the requirements, their costs and the effects of registration.

• An overview of the trademark registration process in Ireland, including difficulties that can arise in the examination process and the effects of registration.

• A review of a recent design enforcement case demonstrating the benefits of protecting designs.    

Ideal packaging commercial designers, industrial (product) designers and designers to the food, beverage, medical device, automotive, agriculture and many other sectors.

For Fashion Designers there is a separate, specific session on IP for Fashion Design at 10am on Friday, August 16th (online)

This event is part of our 2024 Design Summer Sessions programme. Browse through the rest of the programme.

About the trainer

John Milligan

John Milligan is a Dublin-based Senior Associate Solicitor with Mason Hayes & Curran LLP. In that role, John represents a wide range of clients on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters, including trade mark protection, passing off, design rights, copyright, patent infringement and revocation and database rights. In particular, he advises multinational companies on trade mark strategies and brand protection issues and manages international trade mark and design portfolios for large multinational companies including Monster Energy Company, Boyne Valley Group and the Football Association of Ireland to name a few.

John Milligan is an Irish Registered Trade Mark Agent and a European Trade Mark and Design Attorney. I am also a Committee member of the European Communities Trademarks Association (ECTA) Design Committee.

Diplomas:
Law Degree (LLB) from Trinity College Dublin in 2013
Masters Degree in Law (LLM) from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2014.