Moloney & Associates is a full service legal firm specialising in intellectual property withits’ offices located in Limerick City. We are your ‘one-stop-shop’ for Trade Mark applications and advisory.
Trade Marks are a means by which a business identifies its’ goods or services and to help that business to differentiate its’ goods or services from the goods or services of competitors. In other words a Trade Mark is a ‘brand identifier’. The best way to protect a brand name, a logo or other distinctive features is via a Trade Mark registration. You will then be able to use your Trade Mark as a marketing tool so that customers can recognise your goods or services.
In order to register your brand you will need to come up with something that is distinctive, is not merely descriptive of your goods or services, something that doesn’t just indicate its’ geographic origin or also importantly that it doesn’t already exist and belong to someone else ! !
Moloney & Associates will help protect your brand by means of a Trade Mark registration. It will serve to protect, differentiate and add value to your business. A Trade Mark is a valuable business asset that can be mortgaged, sold and also licensed.
A Trade Mark may consist of a business name, a design, a logo, letters, numerals or indeed the shape of the good amongst other things. It is important to realise that just because you have registered your business name with the Companies Registration Office or registered a domain name you have no automatic protection. To have automatic protection you must register the Trade Mark ! !
Brian Moloney, who is the Principal of the firm, is a qualified Irish and European Trade Mark and Design Attorney.
Brian is authorised by the Irish Patents Office and registered with them as a Trade Mark Agent and is the only Trade Mark Agent practising in Limerick City.
The Register of Trade Mark Agents is kept by the Patents Office and can be viewed by copy and pasting the following link in to your browser.
http://www.patentsoffice.ie/en/trademark_agents_register.aspx
I am also authorised by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (O.H.I.M.) which is the office of the European Union which deals with Trade Marks and Designs. It is based in Alicante, Spain. A European Trade Mark is referred to as a Community Trade Mark of C.T.M. for short.
It is the office where Community Trade Mark applications are filed and processed.
Moloney & Associates are your ‘one-stop-shop’ for Irish Trade Mark filings and advisory and also for European Trade Mark filings and advisory. We also process Trade Mark filings internationally using the Madrid Protocol system.
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