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Clinical trial agreements: Five key concepts

  • LK Shields
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  • Ireland
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  • January 24 2013

Clinical trials play a pivotal role in the development of market-safe pharmaceuticals and medical devices and, needless to say, sit within an

Protecting intellectual property in the workplace: the status of ideas, confidential information, trade secrets, and know-how when employees leave

  • LK Shields
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  • Ireland
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  • April 30 2009

IMJ asked Áine Matthews a solicitor with LK Shields Solicitors - and an expert on both contentious and non-contentious aspects of intellectual property including protection of trade marks, goodwill, patents, copyright, designs and domain names - to offer advice on 'ideas walking out the door' when employees are let go

Stamp duty changes in Finance Bill 2009

  • LK Shields
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  • Ireland
  • -
  • May 12 2009

The Finance Bill 2009 contains details of the stamp duty trade-in scheme announced in the Budget

Wild geese: a case of fowl play?

  • LK Shields
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  • Ireland
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  • July 4 2008

While Dustin the Turkey may be grabbing all the headlines, there is even more news of various different types of fowl

Lookalike products: how close is too close?

  • LK Shields
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  • Ireland
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  • January 8 2009

Retailers and shoppers are accustomed to seeing lookalike products on the shelves in supermarkets and convenience stores

Enforcement of intellectual property rights: border measures and protection against counterfeit and pirated goods

  • LK Shields
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  • Ireland
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  • June 15 2009

Counterfeit goods and pirated goods both infringe intellectual property rights, as do moulds or matrices which are specifically designed for the manufacture of goods which infringe an intellectual property right

Too close for comfort?

  • LK Shields
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  • Ireland
  • -
  • March 9 2009

Shoppers are used to seeing lookalike products on supermarket shelves, but how do the manufacturers get away with producing and selling such blatant imitations?

Terms and conditions may protect websites from infringing screen scrapers: Ryanair v Billigfluege.de

  • LK Shields
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  • Ireland
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  • March 16 2010

Website owners must often contend with the activities of third party screen scrapers

Trade marks in Ireland: should the Irish Patents Office continue to examine applications on relative grounds?

  • LK Shields
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  • Ireland
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  • February 12 2010

The Irish Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE) has initiated a consultation process to consider whether the procedures for the examination of trade mark applications under Section 10 of the Trade Marks Act 1996, as amended (TMA), should be changed

Irish Patents Office: routine requests for extensions of time in trade mark matters will be refused

  • LK Shields
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  • Ireland
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  • February 12 2010

The Irish Patents Office (IPO) has proposed the introduction of a new policy on the granting of extensions of time in respect of trade mark matters