The Education Committee is tasked with assisting student members of the Association in becoming fully qualified Irish practitioners.  This Committee organises annual patent and trade mark tutorials and regularly liaises with the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland in relation to the formal Irish Patent and Trade examinations in particular regarding examination content and the syllabus for the examinations.  This Committee also informs APTMA members of any changes in Irish qualification requirements or examination content.  

The members of the Communications Committee currently are as follows:

Judy McCullagh (Chair) - FRKelly

Alan Casey - Dolby International AB

Richard Gillespie - Inventorship

Eoin Gorman - Kerry Group

Anthony Kavanagh - Key Patent Innovations

Sinéad Škrba - Tomkins