Marie Walsh
Marie Walsh, Partner, HGF IP Limited
Marie has considerable experience in providing pragmatic, commercially focused advice to a wide-range of clients and in relation to MedTech, materials science and pharmaceutical inventions. As well as patent drafting and prosecution, Marie advises on the development of company-wide IP strategies, preparing for or carrying out funding/acquisition due diligence, and advising on aggressive/defensive strategies in relation to third party IP. Having worked closely with multi-national corporations, Marie is aware of the particular challenges associated with efficiently prosecuting large multi-national patent portfolios, while keeping patents relevant to the business. She values this experience as it has helped her to provide expert guidance to SMEs as they grow or prepare for acquisition, and to academic institutions as they seek commercial collaborators. As an Irish, UK and European qualified patent attorney, Marie has advised a number of businesses in the MedTech sector in Ireland. Marie and the team at HGF have years of experience in advising on an array of technologies, including cardiovascular implantable devices, microfluidic devices, catheters, electro-physiological and imaging diagnostic devices and coating technologies.