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Lisa Breen

Senior Patent Paralegal

Dublin

Lisa Breen provides paralegal support to our Patent Attorney Team.

Lisa joined Murgitroyd in June 2015 working as a Patent Secretary and Office Manager. In 2020, Lisa obtained the CIPA Patent Administration Certificate and joined the Patent Paralegal group.

Her day-to-day activities include liaising with clients and foreign agents, handling transfers of rights, preparing and filing changes to be recorded on patent registers, preparing cost estimates for recordal of transfers; filing requests for examination; reporting issuance of Letters Patent, preparing and prosecuting Hong Kong recordals via corresponding European and Chinese applications; preparing and filing of Form 3 information for Indian patent applications including monitoring all related deadlines.

Lisa also monitors and provides cited documents for Information Disclosures in both the US and Israel.

Lisa is based in our Dublin Office.

Qualifications

  • CIPA Introduction to Patent Administration Certificate

Memberships

  • CIPA

Key Member of the Paralegal team recognised as Tier 1 by Managing IP Patent Prosecution Rankings

Managing IP, IP Stars Firm ranking 2024 & 2025 - Patent Prosecution Ireland

Key contributor to the paralegal team ranked Gold in IAM 1000 2025 Firm rankings

IAM 1000 2025

Key contributor to the paralegal team recognised in the Financial Times top European Patent Law Firm rankings since 2019

Financial Times European Leading Patent Law Firms - 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 & 2025

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