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On 19 February 2013, Ministers from 24 Member States signed the international agreement setting up the Unified Patent Court (“UPC”) during the EU Comp…
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Since 1977, there has been a project in the works to create a Community patent, i.e. a single patent title providing uniform protection throughout the…
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As a consequence of certain recent data compromise cases, the Belgian Privacy Commission on 21 January 2013, has published a recommendation (01/2013) …
Read MoreThe unified European Patent will simplify the European protection of inventions, and save a lot of time and money for European companies. In this way,…
Read MoreAccording to the Court of Justice of the European Union, a trademark is genuinely used in the EU, when it is used in accordance with its essential fun…
Read MoreAfter more than 30 years of discussion, a compromise is finally found within the European Union to introduce the unitary patent.
Read MoreOn 19 December 2012, the court in The Hague ruled that the entrepreneur who created a portal website with hyperlinks to radio stations must pay compen…
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Een octrooi of patent is een tijdelijk (maximum 20 jaar) monopolie op het exploiteren van een uitvinding in een bepaald land. Wie een octrooi bezit, k…
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Bedrijven kunnen zich preventief voorbereiden om onaangename invallen van de softwarepolitie te vermijden. Maar zelfs als de softwarepolitie daadwerke…
Read MoreCEPANI is organising on 12 December 2012 (13:30–17:30) a colloquium on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the rules for .be domain name dispute r…
Read MoreThe Court of Appeals of The Hague referred preliminary questions to the Court of Justice with regard to the genuine use of a community trademark. Is i…
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On 21 September 2012, the Council of State held that the name “Saucisson d’Ardenne” can only be used for products that were effectively produced in th…
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On 26 September 2012, the President of the Commercial Court of Brussels granted an injunction in a cease-and-desist procedure on the merits (vordering…
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On 17 September 2012, the Court of Appeal of Brussels (the “Court”) confirmed the validity of the patent and supplementary protection certificate (“SP…
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Een schuldeiser die nadenkt over een beslaglegging bij zijn debiteur heeft meer opties dan hij op het eerste gezicht zou denken. Met een beslaglegging…
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In a groundbreaking judgment of 3 July 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) seriously undermined the online sales model used by sof…
Read MoreIn its long awaited decision in Solvay v. Honeywell, the Court of Justice of the EU allows the owners of a European patent to obtain preliminary measu…
Read MoreThe exhaustion of the distribution right does not only apply where the copyright holder markets copies of his software on a material medium but also w…
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The Electronic Communications Act of 13 June 2005 was recently amended in order to implement, amongst other provisions, the new European rules on the …
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On 12 July 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) confirmed the admissibility of interim cross-border injunctions in patent disputes…
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