- European Union Trade Mark and Design Attorney
- Irish Registered Trade Mark Attorney
- B Agr Sc. Environmental Science - First class honours
- M Agr Sc (by research) in Environmental Law and systems
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Joining the IP community over 20 years ago, Hazel qualified as an Irish and EU Design and Trade Mark Attorney in 2003. With her background in both science and law, Hazel has a particular interest in agri-industry and pharmaceuticals, as well the food, nutraceuticals and beverage industries, and enjoys assisting both internationally renowned brands, and local industries in securing and defending their Trade Mark and Design rights.
She has vast experience in advising her Clients on a wide range of Irish, EU and International Trade Mark issues, and in particular in designing highly strategic and cost effective search and filing programs. She is particularly passionate about the protection of IP online, and in social media.Having served for many years as Chair of the Social Committee of the Association of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys (APTMA), she was elected as Vice President in 2018, and elected as President in 2023.. Determined that no trainee gets left behind, Hazel has tutored candidates for the Irish Trade Mark Agent's qualifying exams for almost a decade. She lectures to Trinity College Dublin’s Innovation Academy, Trinity Tangent, The Law Society of Ireland, and to the New Frontiers programme of GMIT. Hazel was awarded Lawyer of the Week by The Times, in January 2019, is one of Managing IPs “IP Stars”, and is honoured to have been nominated one of the Top 250 Women in Intellectual Property worldwide by that same publication in both 2019, and again, in 2020. Hazel has written articles for the World Trade Mark Law Report, the ECTA Bulletin and is co-author of the Irish chapter of the Thomson West publication 'Trade Secrets Throughout the World' (Ed. Melvin F. Jager).
Hazel is a member of ECTA, PTMG (Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group) and INTA (International Trade Mark Association). She has been an active Committee member of the latter for 15 years, having been a member of the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee, the Enforcement Committee, and the Unreal Campaign, increasing awareness and education in the field of counterfeiting. At present, she is serving on the Trademark Office Practices Committee (TOPC) – European National Offices (ENO) Subcommittee.
And if you’ve read this far, you will now learn that Hazel’s main passions are food (eating), restaurants (visiting), and polar exploration (reading about).
- European Union Trade Mark and Design Attorney
- Irish Registered Trade Mark Attorney
- B Agr Sc. Environmental Science - First class honours
- M Agr Sc (by research) in Environmental Law and systems