Mary is a qualified Irish and EU Trade Mark Attorney. She was the first person to successfully complete both the EUIPO’s Paralegal and Trade Mark Attorneys European Trade Marks and Designs Education Programmes. She sits on the ECTA Publications Committee and the National Standards Authority of Ireland Technical Committee on Innovation Management. She was involved in creating the ISO 56001 suite of Innovation Management standards.

Mary is passionate about helping start-ups and SME's get off to a good start with their IP. She works with many of the Local Enterprise Offices in Ireland and provides pro-bono services through the EUIPO's mentoring scheme to assist ambitious new and scaling businesses. Mary has extensive experience of trade mark prosecution and the management and organisation of client portfolios.  In the past, Mary has worked in-house for ambitious start-ups and scaling-up SME companies and this gives her an appreciation of how the commercial needs of the business drive the IP strategy.

 Mary enjoys running and travelling. She has two children, and enjoy walking their pet beagle, Sherlock, together on the local beach.