During this webinar, our IP specialists Olivier Vrins and Bart Junior Bollen walk you through the new EU Regulation on geographical indications (GIs) for craft and industrial products.

During this webinar, Sophie Lens and Julie Peeters identify some of the issues associated with AI use within a company (such as with data protection, intellectual property and/or trade secrets)...

The Antwerp Court of Appeal has recently ruled on a series of cases (December 2023 – October 2024) concerning online copyright infringements. These cases often originated from an intermediary internet...

On 30 August, the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the 1996 WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) came into force in Belgium.

During this webinar, our IP experts Kirian Claeyé and Isabelle Vermeyen tell you what (not) to do in case of a discovery raid (or saisie-contrefaçon)...

Perindopril is a blood pressure control medicine that used to be Servier’s bestselling medicine.

The Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament voted on 17 December 2013 the trade mark package which the European Commission had tabled on 27 March 2013

On 16 November 2017, the Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office reversed the EUIPO examiner's refusal to register a portrait photograph of the Dutch model Maartje Verhoef as an EUTM for a large number of products and services.

The guidelines offer potential solutions and give practical suggestions as to how Google’s privacy policy could satisfy EU data protection requirements.

The Hogan Lovells standard essential patent update reports on recent news and case decisions from jurisdictions including China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Yesterday, the Belgian Constitutional Court has set aside the excitement and/or fear of opponents and supporters of the unitary patent package with a two-pager judgment.

On 21 August 2012, the Court of First Instance of The Hague handed down a judgment in summary proceedings between eleven holders of well-known trade marks for watches.

On 10 January 2013, the European Court of Human Rights held that convictions based on copyright infringement could be in breach with the right of freedom of expression and information under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

On 18 October 2012, the Court of Justice of the EU issued a preliminary ruling applying Directive 96/9/EC.

On 24 November 2011, the Court of Justice of the EU (the "ECJ") handed down its judgment in case 70/10 Scarlet v. SABAM.

On 7 June 2017, Justice Birss of the English High Court of Justice issued a "FRAND" injunction against Huawei in its longstanding licensing dispute pitting it against Unwired Planet, a US based patent assertion entity.

On 21 December 2013, the EU’s Official Journal published a request for a preliminary ruling from a Greek Court (Monomeles Protodikeio Athinon) inquiring whether the use by Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha ("Honda") of its trademarks to prevent the importation of Honda spare parts from Thailand to Greece breaches Articles 101 or 102 TFEU or is in conflict with international trade rules, i.e. the GATT and TRIPs agreements.

Article 27.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states the following: "Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author."

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the European Union that apply to register their industrial property rights this year can recover up to 75 % of the official registration fees...

The infringement lasted from 1 January 2014 to 31 October 2017.