Our Expertise
- Life Sciences
- Brand Clearance & Domestic Registration
- Mechanical Engineering
- ICT, Electronics & Business Methods
- Community Trademark & International Registration
- Designs
- Litigation & Contentious Matters
- Domains
Life Sciences
We operate at the cutting edge of science. You can therefore rest assured that we will understand your innovation, assimilate it, and assess its suitability for adequate patent protection. In addition and in line with our deeply rooted value creation ethos, we provide you with advice on how to leverage your technology to provide maximum benefit to your business.
All of our life sciences patent attorneys are trained scientists and engineers with research and / or industrial backgrounds. Working with our life sciences team, you benefit from our dual technical and legal expertise. We offer you the perfect platform to secure legal protection around your scientific discoveries and advances, and maximise the scope of your monopoly.
Our deep expertise also allows us to help you identify and protect peripheral aspects around your inventions which you may have overlooked, ensuring a full spectrum of protection
Through both 80 years practice and exposure to client portfolios we have experience in a wealth of disciplines including: industrial chemistry, adhesives, polymer chemistry, food technology, pharmaceuticals, drug delivery systems, diagnostics, scientific and medical devices and instrumentation, vaccines, immunology, virology, cancer research, genomics, proteomics, neuroscience, nuclear transfer technology and bioinformatics.
Brand Clearance & Domestic Registration
Launching a new brand or devising a new logo can be expensive and time consuming. You need to be certain that your efforts will be rewarded and that there are no roadblocks to the use of your brand. For example, have you considered if you logo or brand is already in use? Might you be prevented from launching or using your brand name at home or abroad?
Working with clients to advise on clearance and availability of brand names, logos, designs and trademarks, our Brand Clearance and Domestic Registration team carry out extensive searches to clear brands for use.
Our attorneys advise clients, from large brand-owners and young start-up companies, on all aspects of brand clearance, trademark registration and enforcement of trademark rights. In addition, our team draws from substantial experience gained from working with clients in many different industries, to obtain exclusive trademark protection for our clients in Ireland.
Mechanical Engineering
Our Mechanical Engineering team draws on substantial industry and professional experience, and works with a wide range of clients across many industries, searching, drafting and prosecuting Irish, European and International patent applications. Our attorneys combine key engineering capabilities with detailed knowledge of IP law to offer our clients the specialist expertise that contribute to Tomkins' reputation for providing superior advice and service in all aspects of IP protection, and increasing our clients’ opportunities for growth.
Ranging from industrial machinery to domestic appliances, our team has obtained patent protection for many products including: Medical Devices,Mechanical Devices, Engineering Hand Tools, Food Processing Machinery, High Vacuum Instruments; Locks and Security Systems, Mechanical Fittings, Sewage Treatment Systems and Vapour Deposition Systems. Our Mechanical Engineering team works closely with our life sciences team in relation of medical and veterinary devices.
ICT, Electronics & Business Methods
Clients, ranging from start-ups to large multi-nationals, with business interests in Electronics, Software, Optics, Telecommunications and Digital Technologies have all availed of our expertise to maximise the competitive advantage they can draw from their IP.
We combine industrial and academic experience with extensive knowledge of all issues relating to IP protection and enforcement. Our clients feel they are in safe hands as our ICT, Electronics, Software & Business Methods team works closely with them to gain an in-depth understanding of each project prior to securing and/or enforcing appropriate patent rights.
Community Trademark & International Registration
Trademarks are a vital part of your identity. A trademark helps establish your brand identity, to let your customers know that they can trust the source of the goods and services they purchase. Can your company name be protected? Have you considered what you would do if your name was being used by others? Have you considered the implications of being forced to change your brand because of a trade mark issue that could have been avoided with the right advice?
Our European & International Registration team works with clients seeking trademark protection and enforcement both within and outside of Ireland, and hold substantial experience in drafting and filing trade mark applications that have the best chance of being registered. We also have helped many clients avoid the pitfall of adapting a brand that was not in fact free to use.
Drawing from long-term experience working with international brand owners and domestic clients, our team shares its expertise with clients across a broad spectrum of industries, all of whom are met with the same unwavering ethos of professional excellence that has earned us an outstanding reputation for personal service.
Designs
Design right protection is an often underestimated form of IP protection available for protecting the aesthetic features of your product. Design right protection affords designers an additional line of defence in safeguarding the look of their creations, thereby allowing the creation of an IP portfolio, or indeed augmenting the value of an existing IP portfolio. Design rights are excellently suited to protect the aesthetic features of both industrial and ornamental designs, consequently allowing protection of creations when more traditionally recognised forms of IP, such as patents and trademarks, are not suitable. Indeed the best protected concepts have patent, design and trade mark protection.
With the Tomkins’ team, designers can rest easy knowing that their conceptions are protected, given them freedom to focus on their creative side without having to worry that competitors can benefit from their hard work, whilst undermining the designers’ originality in the market place.
As one of the top Irish firms filing Irish, UK and European Community Design Registrations, we will help you select products that qualify for design right protection and assist you in maximising your products’ value and identify what additional IP protection may be available for your creations, both within Europe and further afield.
Litigation & Contentious Matters
Our Litigation Support & Contentious Matters team offers expert advice to clients on all aspects of patent, trademark, design or copyright infringement matters.
We have considerable experience in contentious proceedings, and representing clients at oral hearings. Our comprehensive litigation support and technical understanding in invaluable to our clients to successfully maintain their competitive advantage and further strengthen their market position.
Domains
Clients often look to us for strategic advice on the most suitable domain names to register, and the most appropriate top-level domain name to employ. Furthermore, we aid many clients in determining the freedom to use available domain names by helping them avoid trade mark issues, and we also provide subsequent domain name registration and maintenance support. In the event a dispute arises, our clients can be confident that their interests are being looked after by professionals experienced and familiar with the domain name dispute process.
