Please be aware that following application, publication or registration of a trade mark you may receive unsolicited mail or be contacted directly by one or more private companies seeking payment of official fees which are due to either the Irish Patents Office, the UK Intellectual Property Office or the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market.

These private companies are not connected or in any way associated with LK Shields Solicitors or any relevant trade marks registry. We recommend that you disregard such notices and please do not pay any fees to these companies.

If we have processed your trade mark applications, the only authentic fee requests that you will receive will be from LK Shields Solicitors. If you have any doubt as to whether any correspondence is official or not, please check with us.

For further information please contact Deirdre Kilroy or Aine Matthews.

November 2008.