About NIall

Níall Tierney is an experienced, registered, regulated and fully insured Intellectual Property Lawyer and Consultant. He operates as a sole practitioner.

Níall combines his knowledge of Intellectual Property law with his over 30 years of experience and a ‘no-nonsense’ approach to provide clients with strategic focused legal advice about  the monetisation, ownership and use of key intellectual property assets.

Níall’s particular speciality is in the clearance, protection and maintenance of brands; industrial designs; product packaging/get up; copyright and related rights; personality rights and trade secrets. His reputation is for providing commercially orientated Intellectual Property advice and assistance to clients in a timely manner.

What Niall can do for you?

As a lawyer specialising in Intellectual Property law, Níall offers a wide range of services. He provides advice and assistance to businesses and individuals across a variety of sectors in relation to the clearance, enforcement, licensing, management, protection and securitisation of brands; trade marks; designs; image rights; logos; literary, musical and artistic works within the European Union and the United Kingdom.

Níall is accredited before the following Intellectual Property offices:

The European Union Intellectual Property Office
The Intellectual Property Office of Ireland
The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office
The World Intellectual Property Organization

Níall is also available to represent clients in Mediation and Arbitration proceedings. He is a signatory to the World Intellectual Property Organization Mediation Pledge.

Legal advice and assistance in relation to Patents

Why choose Níall?

Níall’s experience as a leading qualified Intellectual Property lawyer has been gained while working within the European Union, Switzerland and the United Kingdom (City of London).

Níall was the first IP practitioner in Ireland to be entered on the List of Professional Representatives of the European Union Intellectual Property Office and has maintained practice as such since 2 February 1996.

Throughout his career, Níall’s expertise and acumen has been frequently recognised in top independent legal directories such as “The Legal 500®” and “WTR 1000®”.  

In WTR 1000®, Níall has been regularly ranked in the top ‘Gold Tier’ for Trademark Prosecution and Strategy in Ireland.

As one of the most highly rated Intellectual Property lawyers in Ireland, Níall has been regularly listed on a yearly basis in the prestigious WTR Global Leaders.  

Amongst the clients that Níall represents are Apple Inc, Shiseido, Mason Hamlin Pianos and Milton International. Níall also acts as a consultant on EU Intellectual Property law to numerous top international law firms.

All matters are solely handled by Níall from start to finish.

All communications with Níall are protected under statute through the doctrine of legal professional privilege, which means they are confidential and cannot be disclosed to the other side without his client’s permission.

Contact

EUROPEAN UNION

Telephone: +353 (0)83 396  7887

UNITED KINGDOM

Telephone: +44 (0)28 9581  2156

In telephoning, please note that legal advice is only provided to established clients of my practice.

Email :info@tierneyip.com

Office Hours:

Open: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (UTC+0) – Monday to Friday
Closed: Weekends & Public Holidays (Ireland and United Kingdom)

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