• Acting for a multinational pharmaceutical company in separate SPC and patent revocation proceedings before the Commercial Court regarding the product Tiotropium Bromide Monohydrate.

• Acting for a leading Turkish tissue paper provider in a Commercial Court patent infringement dispute.

Copyright 

• Acting for a number of Internet service providers in respect of web-blocking applications taken by the Motion Picture Association before the Commercial Court.

• Acting for an online travel website in copyright and database right infringement proceedings taken by Ryanair in respect of alleged screen scraping activities.

• Acting for UPC (now Virgin Media), a major Internet service provider, in copyright infringement proceedings taken by the Irish recording companies to combat illegal P2P filesharing seeking the introduction of a court ordered graduated response system.

• Acting for Ireland’s largest cable service provider in Commercial Court proceedings regarding the out of home streaming rights of public service broadcasts and cable retransmission defences.

Trade marks

• Acting for a large mobile telephone company on trade mark infringement proceedings concerning a national comparative advertising campaign by a competitor.

• Acting for a leading provider of nutritional products in Community trade mark infringement proceedings before the Commercial Court.

• Acting for Calor Gas on trade mark infringement proceedings concerning cylinder refilling before the Irish High Court.

• Acting for a major TV services provider in a trade mark comparative advertising case in the Commercial Court.

• Acting for a multinational pharmaceutical company on trade mark clearance issues and clearing the way litigation strategies.

Designs

• Acting for a French fashion house on design right infringement matters.

• Advising an international furniture company on design registration and enforcement strategies in Ireland and the EU.

Legal 500, 2020

Gerard "really knows his stuff and exudes a calm authority".