A Guide to Trade Mark Law and Practice in Ireland

Helen Johnson qualified as a Barrister in 2000 and as a European Trade Mark and Design Attorney and Registered Irish Trade Mark Agent in 2008. Having worked for an IP firm in Dublin where she advised clients on the prosecution of trade mark applications and contentious matters, she returned to practice at the Bar in 2010 where she now specialises in IP. She is the course tutor for the Law Society's Diploma in IP/IT, editor of the Irish Intellectual Property Law Journal and a member of the Board Of Appeal at Community Plant Variety Office.

1 Intellectual Property - What is it?; 2 The Law; 3 Trade Marks and Pre-filling Issues; 4 The Irish Application; 5 The Community Trade Mark Application; 6 The International Application; 7 Examination of your Trade Mark Application on Absolute Grounds; 8 Registering Conventional Signs and Non Conventional Signs; 9 Relative Grounds for Refusal; 10 State Emblems, Protected Marks and Well-Known Marks; 11 Publication; 12 Observations; 13 Opposition Proceedings in Ireland; 14 Opposition at the OHIM; 15 Conversion of a Community Trade mark; 16 The Register; 17 Registration and Matters Affecting Trade Marks; 18 Renewals and Restoration; 19 Assignments, Licenses and Recordals; 20 Infringement; 21 Passing Off; 22 Defences; 23 Enforcement of Trademark Rights, Remedies and Jurisdictional Forums; 24 Anti-Counterfeiting and Customs; 25 Revocation; 26 Invalidity; 27 Surrender of a Trade Mark; 28 The Controller; 29 The Doctrine of Exhaustion and the Law of Parallel Imports; 30 Protected Geographical Indications and Protected Designated Origins; 31 Trade Marks and Domain Names; 32 Certification and Collective Trade Marks; 33 An Overview of the Main Markets; 34 How to Qualify as a Trade Mark Agent.