Legal advice
The legal landscape keeps evolving, and contracts are not always easy to interpret. We advise on IP strategy, data protection, the AI Act, e-commerce and digital services rules, and on the scope of your contracts, both for compliance and for strategic decisions.
- IP strategy
- Data protection (GDPR)
- AI Act
- E-commerce and digital services
- IP due diligence
- Open source compliance
Representative matters
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Advising a call centre on its use of AI for emotion recognition.
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Advising a pharmaceutical company on its right to terminate a licence agreement governed by Belgian law.
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Analysing the validity and infringement of a patent portfolio relating to digital TV functionalities.
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Advising a pharmaceutical company on the licence terms for an AI drug discovery tool.
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Conducting a due diligence of the IP assets of an industrial company in the context of a share purchase.
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Advising a retailer on running a Google Ads campaign without infringing competitors' trade marks.
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Advising a multinational on making a promotional campaign with a prize game compliant with the Belgian law on games of chance.
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Advising a public institution on its compliance with open source software licences, including GPL and AGPL.
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Advising an internet access provider on whether it may disclose the identity of its users, based on IP addresses and timestamps, at the request of a third party.
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Advising an e-commerce retailer on patents asserted against it by a patent licensing company.
Related expertise
- ContractsWell-drafted agreements protect the value of your intellectual property and technology. We draft, review and negotiate IT and SaaS contracts, software and IP licences, IP assignments, consultancy, services and outsourcing agreements, terms and conditions and NDAs.
- 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.
Related publications
- Generative AI and intellectual property in questionsContribution, 2023
- Un pas de plus vers le marché unique numérique : le point sur le nouveau règlement interdisant le blocage géographiqueR.D.T.I. n° 73, p. 27
- CJEU: a free Wi-Fi provider is entitled to rely on the mere conduit defence but can be ordered to set up a password protection and identify its usersLeading Internet Case Law vol. 16, issue 5
- Wi-Fi public ouvert et téléchargement illégal : protection et obligations du fournisseur d'accèsR.D.T.I. 2016/2-3, n° 63-64, p. 140-148
Hakim Haouideg is also a recognised expert of the Belgian Intellectual Property Office for its free IP prediagnostic service for Belgian companies.