Intellectual property

We help you develop a well-thought-out strategy to optimally protect your intellectual property rights. We identify potential risks and provide practical advice that can be directly applied at the management level.

Whether you want to enforce your rights or defend against a claim by rights holders, our experienced team supports you in litigation. The team conducts proceedings before all Belgian courts, as well as the highest European courts, including cases before the European Court of Justice and (opposition) proceedings before the EUIPO and the BOIP. Additionally, we have extensive experience with counterfeit seizures (“saisie-contrefaçon”) and cease-and-desist proceedings.

We draft various IP-related and commercial agreements, from licensing and transfer agreements to distribution and franchise contracts. We analyse your draft agreements and guide you through negotiations to ensure that your intellectual property is thoroughly protected.

In mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property is often a crucial factor. Our team, therefore, conducts thorough due diligence investigations and works closely with the firm’s M&A team to ensure that your intellectual property interests are optimally safeguarded.

Some of our references

• Assisting and representing a Belgian manufacturer of agricultural machinery in one of the first infringement and validity proceedings before the Belgian division of the Unified Patent Court in Brussels;
• Assisting and representing the Belgian State in proceedings before the Constitutional Court against Google, Meta, Sony, Spotify, and Streamz regarding the correct or incorrect transposition of a European directive into Belgian law;
• Assisting and representing a company in the chemical sector in a dispute concerning patents, copyrights, and trade secrets;
• Assisting and representing a plastic product manufacturer to stop copyright and design right infringements on its products;
• Assisting and representing a manufacturer of animal feed additives in a dispute regarding the validity of a patent;
• Assisting and representing a leading manufacturer of packaging boxes in a patent infringement dispute against a competitor;
• Assisting and representing a World Tour cycling team in complying with the riders’ image rights;
• Assisting and representing a Belgian government agency in an appeal case regarding the refusal of an application for a supplementary protection certificate (SPC);
• Assisting and representing a Belgian brewery in a trade mark dispute concerning Belgian beers;
• Assisting a global leader in identification technology in drafting and reviewing key agreements on intellectual property, confidential information, knowledge transfer, and technology;
• Assisting and representing a postal company in Belgium in a cease-and-desist order concerning an infringement of its trade mark and copyrights;
• Assisting and representing a renowned foreign singer-songwriter in various proceedings to enforce his copyright and related rights, including counterfeit seizure and cease-and-desist proceedings;
• Assisting an international non-profit organisation in drafting and negotiating a contract (in the context of a public procurement) for the development and implementation of a software platform and database collecting and uploading data on medical products;
• Assisting a banking consortium in drafting and negotiating agreements for establishing and maintaining an ATM network.