About Niall Tierney

Niall Tierney is an experienced, registered, regulated and fully insured Intellectual Property Lawyer and Consultant. He operates as a sole practitioner and has been in practice for over 30 years.

Niall’s particular speciality is in the clearance, protection and maintenance of trade marks; industrial designs; product packaging/get up; copyright and related rights; personality rights and trade secrets.

Niall 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.

Niall’s 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, Niall offers a wide range of services. He provides advice and assistance to businesses and individuals across a variety of industry 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.

Niall 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

Niall can also act as an IPEP legal representative for his clients and is available to represent clients in Mediation and Arbitration proceedings. He is a signatory to the World Intellectual Property Organization Mediation Pledge.

Why choose Níall?

Niall’s experience as a leading qualified Intellectual Property lawyer has been gained while working within the European Union, Switzerland and the United Kingdom,  including with City of London ‘Magic Circle’ law firms.

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

In WTR 1000®, Niall 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, Niall has been regularly listed on a yearly basis in the prestigious WTR Global Leaders.  

Niall has experience in advocating on behalf of clients at oral hearings (in-person and remotely) before the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland and the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office in both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Amongst the clients that Niall represents are Apple Inc, Shiseido, Mason Hamlin Pianos and Milton International.

Niall also acts as a consultant on EU Intellectual Property law to numerous top international law firms and external counsel to a leading anti-counterfeiting organization.

When you instruct Niall, you receive a ‘one-to-one’ dedicated service from an IP lawyer with over 30 years of experience. All matters are solely handled by Níall from start to completion.

All communications with Niall are protected under the doctrine of Legal Professional Privilege in the European Union and the United Kingdom.

Fees & Payments

TIERNEY IP offers flexible fee options ranging from, fixed fees for most matters prosecuted before IP Offices where Niall is accredited, to Alternative Fee Arrangements outside the standard ‘time spent’ method of charging.

If you would like information about how TIERNEY IP charges, please contact us by email at info@tierneyip.com.  Alternatively,  please do not hesitate to get in touch by phoning +353 (0)91 411 690.

All services provided by Niall are invoiced through Tigurnmas LTD, t/a TIERNEY IP.

Payments to TIERNEY IP can be made as follows:

Electronic Funds Transfer/Wire to the bank account details as set out in the invoice we supply to you.

Via Wise® Quick Pay.
Email tatiana@tierneyip.com for a dedicated link.

Via Visa® or Mastercard®.
Email tatiana@tierneyip.com for a dedicated link or QR code. Please note that a surcharge of up to 4% on the balance payable may apply for these type of payments.

Contact

Telephone: +353 (0)91 411 690 – European Union

Telephone: +44(0)28 9602 6987 – United Kingdom

Signal: @dliador.66

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


Email :info@tierneyip.com

Please note that the above email is only to be used if you have a genuine legal matter or query regarding my services. All other email will be regarded as spam and is likely to not receive a response.

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Closed: Weekends & Public Holidays (Ireland and United Kingdom)

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