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Intellectual property

Eubelius

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Eubelius has ‘outstanding knowledge in the field of intellectual property’ with expertise across patents, trademarks, and copyright. The firm regularly represents leading clients across a wide range of sectors. Pieter Callens leads both the IP and IT departments, and has vast experience across IP litigation and competition work. Callens also boasts expertise in cases in the Unified Patent Court, and is commended for his ‘excellent IP skills’. Fay Reynaert is key to the practice, with expertise in complex intellectual property files. Hans Verstrepen is also noted, focusing on patent and design rights litigation.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘The team has outstanding knowledge in the field of intellectual property. They practice in all relevant languages and could easily communicate in English as well.’

  • ‘Pieter Callens was helpful and kept us informed about the status of the case and the content of the submissions. He was familiar with relevant legal practice and took into account economic factors as well.’

  • ‘We work with the Intellectual Property Team of Eubelius in Brussels. They are highly capable and dedicated to achieving results. They are able to deal with complex litigations involving a massive amount of documents and focus their attention on the key points of importance for us.’

  • ‘Pieter Callens is deeply rooted in West Flanders and has excellent IP skills.’

  • 'Pieter Callens is among the best IP lawyers Belgium has.'

  • ‘Eubelius is a professional team with a positive attitude. The team clearly presents the procedure and options.’

Key clients

  • Cretes NV
  • Belgian State
  • Verpakkingen VdeV
  • NanoWatt
  • Decolef
  • Savic
  • Brouwerij Roman
  • KU Leuven Research and Development
  • Ocular

Work highlights

Assisting the Belgian company Cretes in a patent infringement dispute against Belgian company Hyler before the Unitary Patent Court (UPC), local division Brussels.
Assisting the Belgian State in a litigation before the Constitutional Court against Google, Meta, Sony, Spotify and Streamz, claiming that the Belgian State incorrectly transposed the directive on copyright and related rights in the digital single market.
Assisting Nanowatt in a patent and trade secret dispute against Europlasma.

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Pieter Callens

Practice head

Pieter Callens

Other key lawyers

Fay Reynaert; Hans Verstrepen