• Life Sciences
• AI

• Patent Litigation
• Trademark Litigation
• Copyright Litigation
• Intellectual Property Law and Litigation
• Commercial Litigation
• Technology Law

Authorships

• Author of "Primary injunctions in Ireland" in Intellectual Property Magazine, September 2018
• Author of "Uncertain impact on IP rights after Brexit", www.bizplus.ie, June 2018

Engagements

Gerard is a lecturer, tutor and examiner on the Law Society of Ireland’s professional training courses for solicitors in the areas of copyright, designs and patents.

Education

• University of Limerick, BA Law and Accounting
• University College Dublin, Diploma, Arbitration
• University College Dublin, LLM, Commercial Law
• Law Society of Ireland, Diploma, E-Commerce
• Irish Taxation Institute, AITI
• King’s College London, University of London, Postgraduate Diploma, UK, European and US Law of Copyright and Related Rights,
• Law Society of Ireland, Diploma, Commercial Litigation
• University of London, LLM, International Intellectual Property Law

Professional Memberships

• Law Society of Ireland
• Law Society of England and Wales
• Law Society of Northern Ireland
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Irish Taxation Institute
• European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)
• Association for the Protection on Industrial Property (AIPPI)
• International Trademark Association (INTA)
• European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA)

• Acting for a multinational biosimilar company in infringement and invalidity proceedings concerning a number of patents related to a treatment for arthritis

• Acting for a multinational pharmaceutical company in the successful defence of a preliminary injunction application related to a combination treatment for HIV

• Acting for a multinational pharmaceutical company in patent revocation/ infringement proceedings before the Commercial Court regarding the asthma treatment combination Budesonide/ Formoterol

• 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

• 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

• 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