Aoife Murphy

Aoife is an experienced commercial litigator with particular focus on intellectual property. She advises a wide range of indigenous and multinational clients on all aspects of intellectual property issues, patent, trademarks, copyright and design related intellectual property matters. She has advised clients across a broad range of industries including life sciences and medical devices, consumer goods, engineering and industrials. 

She is particularly experienced in multi-jurisdictional patent and SPC disputes and has acted in some of the most high-profile patent and SPC cases to come before the Irish Courts in recent years. Her experience often involves Irish "firsts", such as acting in the first biologic/biosimilar litigation in Ireland, the first cross-border preliminary injunction application in Ireland and the first proceedings brought anywhere in Europe relating to a derogation sought under the SPC manufacturing waiver. She has also acted in most of the preliminary injunction applications relating to patent and SPC matters before the Commercial Court in the past 10 years, including the leading Supreme Court decision on the approach to preliminary injunctions in Ireland and all of the cross-border preliminary injunctions to come before the Irish Court. She has also acted in all of the patent proceedings relating to medical devices to come before the Irish court in the past 15 years.

She has considerable experience in life science matters particularly medical devices, biosimilars and well as patents in other sectors. Aoife is involved in claims of infringement and revocation of patents and SPC's which protect pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, electronic point-of-sale systems and drone technology.