IP Innovations was established by Tara Mac Mahon, solicitor, in 2003.  Tara’s experience spans all aspects of IP creation, acquisition, protection, management and commercialisation.  She has extensive experience in a diverse range of industries. In particular, she has gained a unique understanding of the IP issues relevant to Irish research institutes, technology transfer offices, start-up and early stage companies, and Irish public funding agencies. Tara’s unique experience was recognised in July 2009 when she was appointed by the Irish government to be a member of the National Innovation Task Force to support the development of the Smart Economy.

Tara is a registered trade mark agent and acquired an MSc in Economic Policy Studies from The Policy Institute, TCD in 2004. She is also the author of the IP licensing chapter in the current text for the Law Society of Ireland’s Professional Practice Course (PPC), “Intellectual Property Law” (Cavendish 2003).

After qualifying as a solicitor in 1997, Tara worked in the IP legal department of a leading UK law firm for two years, and then worked as an Associate IP lawyer at Matheson Ormsby Prentice Solicitors, Dublin, for four years. In 2003, Tara set up this specialist IP legal practice, with particular focus on IP issues relevant to the Irish technology transfer and start-up arena. In particular, Tara:-

Tara was an adviser to the Advisory Council for Science Technology and Innovation in respect of the National Code of Practice for Managing IP from Publicly Funded Research (‘04), and also the National Code of Practice for Managing and Commercialising IP from Public-Private Collaborative Research (’05). At European level, Tara was Rapporteur for the European Commission CREST Expert Group on IPR and Research (Jan-June ‘04), and also for the Thematic Session on Optimising the Mechanisms for Technology Sharing, held as part of the Dutch EU Presidency (Oct ‘04).

To learn more about IP innovations, please contact taramacmahon@ipinnovations.ie