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IP enforcement in Belgium

Infringement of your patents, trade marks, designs or copyright costs market share and reputation, online and offline. We act to stop it with the tools the law provides: descriptive seizures, cease and desist proceedings, customs measures, takedowns and domain name disputes.

  • Descriptive seizures
  • Protective letters
  • Cease and desist
  • Customs measures
  • Online takedowns
  • Domain name disputes (UDRP)

Representative matters

  • Representing an international footwear company in customs seizures of counterfeit goods across the European Union.

    Trade marks and designs, customs

  • Enforcing the copyright and design rights of a toy manufacturer against an alleged infringer based in Belgium, through an ex parte descriptive seizure order.

    Copyright and designs, toys

  • Recovering, through court proceedings, several domain names under different extensions registered in bad faith by a Belgian individual.

    Domain names, cybersquatting

  • Enforcing the iconic trade mark of a fashion company against alleged infringers based in Belgium, through an ex parte descriptive seizure order.

    Trade marks, descriptive seizure

  • Recovering a domain name for a food distributor through UDRP proceedings.

    Domain names, UDRP

  • Filing a protective letter against a possible descriptive seizure, for a global pharmaceutical company.

    Patents, life sciences

  • Having photographs of a high-net-worth individual removed through cease and desist letters to the publishers and takedown notices to online intermediaries.

    Personality rights, takedown

Related expertise

  • Dispute resolutionSome disputes cannot be settled at the negotiating table. We represent clients before the Belgian and EU courts in IP infringement, contract, unfair competition and technology disputes, and in reputation, defamation, press and media cases.
  • Trade mark and design prosecutionA strong trade mark strategy is the foundation of brand protection. We help you choose and clear your marks, file trade marks and designs before the BOIP, the EUIPO and WIPO, and manage your portfolio across several jurisdictions, including objections from the offices, oppositions, invalidity and cancellation proceedings.

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