Patricia
McGovern - Chairman and Head of the Intellectual
Property Department and the Corporate and Commercial Department
- Admitted as a Solicitor in Ireland, 1987
- Community Trade Mark and Design Attorney, 1996
- Registered Irish Trade Mark Agent, 1994
- Recipient of Guinness & Mahon Taxation Prize,
1984
- BA Mod (Legal Science) Trinity College Dublin, 1983
Patricia obtained an honours degree in law from Trinity
College Dublin and qualified as a solicitor in 1987. She
also qualified as an Irish Trade Mark Agent in 1994 and as
a Community Trade Mark and Design Attorney in 1996.
Patricia has practised in almost all areas of corporate
and commercial law. She has considerable expertise
in the buying and selling of private companies, public listings
both in Ireland and the UK, rights issues, public offers,
competition law, pensions and general strategic commercial
advice. In her 20 years of practice she has acted in a significant
number of high profile acquisitions and public listings and
takeovers.
Patricia advises on all aspects of intellectual property
law. She
is regarded as one of the leading intellectual
property lawyers
in Ireland and has consistently been highly recommended by
many organisations such as 'The Legal 500' for many years. She
has considerable experience in advising on brand strategies,
protection strategies for patents, trade marks, designs and
copyright, from prosecution to registration of trade marks
and designs before the Irish Trade Marks Office and the Community
Trade Marks & Designs
Office, the exploitation of intellectual property rights
including licensing arrangements, and on all contentious
aspects in intellectual property to include trade mark, copyright
and design infringement actions, passing off actions, anti-counterfeiting
actions, patent infringement actions, actions for invalidity
of patents and for declarations of non-infringement.
She also deals with all aspects of franchising, data protection
and the competition aspects of intellectual property. In
addition, she has extensive experience in dealing with issues
affecting e-commerce and the internet, all aspects of technology
agreements, all types of media contracts and the intellectual
property aspects of employment.
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Contact Patricia McGovern pmcgovern@dfmgsolicitors.ie |
