John Milligan
John Milligan is a Senior Associate Solicitor in the Intellectual Property Law team at Mason Hayes & Curran LLP.
John has extensive experience in advising on all aspects of both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters, including trade mark protection, passing off, design rights, copyright, patent infringement and revocation and database rights. In particular, John is an expert on trade mark strategies and brand protection issues and manages international trade mark portfolios for a wide range of multinational businesses in the food and beverage, financial services and technology sectors. He has acted in some of the most high profile Commercial Court cases in Ireland in recent years involving trade mark, copyright and design rights infringement. He also has practical experience of other means of dispute resolution including mediations, expert determinations and arbitrations.
John also specialises in intellectual property commercialisation and in identifying and advising on intellectual property issues in commercial transactions including mergers and acquisitions and the onshoring of valuable intellectual property rights into Ireland.
John publishes articles widely in various journals with a focus on intellectual property protection and enforcement and he is a tutor on Intellectual Property Law at the Law Society of Ireland.
In addition, he is an Irish registered trade mark agent and a European Trade Marks and Designs Attorney and deals with trade mark and design filing and prosecution actions. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the London School of Economics and Political Science.