Brussels

Intellectual Property

We have a dedicated team specialising in intellectual property matters, both contentious and non-contentious.

Our team litigates cases in all fields of intellectual property law (patents, trademarks, design rights, copyright, trade names, domain names, etc.) before both the Belgian civil and criminal courts. We have also litigated cases in related fields such as unfair competition law concerning misappropriation of trade secrets and other unfair trade practices.

As far as non-contentious work is concerned our team helps IP-rich companies in designing strategies to maximise the value of their IP assets through merchandising and other deals, assists research-driven undertakings in drafting and negotiating IP-sensitive agreements such as joint development and license and distribution agreements and advises life sciences clients on regulatory matters such as advertising and pricing and reimbursement questions.

Our team has also conducted several in depth audits of IP-rights portfolios (including the refocusing of such portfolios) and clears on a regular basis advertising and marketing campaigns from an IP and unfair competition perspective (comparative advertising, discount strategies, promotional contests, fidelity programs, etc.).

In close collaboration with other practices we advise clients on issues on the intersections between IP and other fields of law such as patent income deduction schemes, employee inventions and parallel imports.

Our team is integrated with the IP teams in our London, Paris, Hamburg, Munich and Düsseldorf offices which allows us to provide our clients with a co-ordinated strategy for IP (litigation) matters covering the most important European IP jurisdictions.