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Ne manquez pas les Universités d'été d'AVOCATS.BE – Inscrivez-vous aujourd'hui

Nous sommes ravis de constater votre enthousiasme pour la 8ème édition des Universités d’été qui aura lieu les 20 et 21 août 2024 au magnifique Château-ferme de Courrière. Avec déj…

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L’avenir numérique s’éclaire

Le 12 juin 2024, les 11.000 avocats flamands, et les 8.300 avocats francophones et germanophones ont uni leur destin numérique dans la société DPA (Digital Platform for Attorneys),…

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New Partner at Deloitte Legal

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of DeloitteLegal’s newest partner in Belgium: Matthias Vierstraete.

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The Cyber Resilience Act - A new step forward for the cybers…

The Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 of the European Parlia…

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Overview of the new legal framework for Designs in the EU - …

Often misunderstood and definitely underused, EU design law is about to rec…

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Well-known Belgian painter breached the copyrights of a photographer

On 15 January 2015, the president of the commercial court of Antwerp rendered his decision in the case of the well-known Belgian painter Luc Tuymans a…

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Recent highlights in Belgian patent litigation: Is Belgium aligning with its neighbouring countries?

Recent Belgian case law has brought interesting developments in two major fields of patent litigation. Important decisions were reported in matters of…

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Intellectual property legislation is now integrated into the new Belgian Code of economic law

The book XI of the new Belgian Code of economic law («CEL») gathers a significate part of different economic legislations such as intellectual propert…

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Pleegt een schilder auteursrecht-inbreuk door zijn schilderij te baseren op een bestaande foto?

Het vonnis van 15 januari 2015 waarbij kunstenaar Luc Tuymans veroordeeld werd voor het "reproduceren" van een foto van fotografe Katrijn Van Giel dee…

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The GOLDEN BALLS trademark saga continues: the CJEU sends the case back to the OHIM

In its judgment in joined (opposition) cases C-581/13 P and C-582/13 P Intra-Presse SAS v. OHIM and Golden Balls Ltd regarding the registration of the…

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Red soles of Louboutin protected by trademark law

The Court of Appeal of Brussels has decided that red soles of the brand Louboutin are a valid trademark. As a consequence [of this decision], other sh…

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Europe’s Right to be forgotten: update on implementation guidelines

In an earlier newsletter, we wrote that the Article 29 Working Party ("Working Party 29″) has adopted guidelines relating to the implementation of the…

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Antwerp Commercial Court Issues Injunction Closing Down Collaborative Video Recorder Provider Bhaalu

On 4 November 2014, the Commercial Court of Antwerp ("the Court") issued a cease and desist order against NV Right Brain Interface ("RBI") to close do…

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Nouvelle circulaire fiscale sur la cession ou concession de droits d’auteur ou de droits voisins

L'administration fiscale a publié une circulaire n°36/2014 le 23 octobre 2014. La circulaire détaille comment les revenus obtenus par une personne phy…

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“Collaboratieve videorecorder” Bhaalu verboden door rechtbank

Terwijl op de achtergrond Netflix in België gelanceerd werd en Telenet naarstig verder werkt aan eigen content in concurrentie met de televisiezenders…

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Big Data’s legal and compliance challenges

On behalf of time.lex, I was invited to speak at EPCA PAYMENT SUMMIT held in Brussels, in March 2014, about one of the most important topics of today'…

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The CJEU defined the concept of parody in the Suske en Wiske’ case (C-201/13 Deckmyn)

The concept of parody is an autonomous concept of EU law. The only characteristics of a parody are to evoke an existing work while being noticeably di…

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Nieuwe domeinnaam extensies: .vlaanderen en .brussels

Het wordt steeds moeilijker om een plaatsje te veroveren op het internet. De bekende webextensies (.com, .be, .org, .eu) raken stilaan overbevolkt. Al…

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Towards Strong Authentication for Electronic Payments

Recently the presidency of the Council of Ministers recommended that strong customer authentication should be mandatory in a whole range of electronic…

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Voordelen inzake handhaving van intellectuele eigendomsrechten

De huidige informatiemaatschappij liegt er niet om: het verwerven van kennis garandeert een concurrentievoordeel. Door middel van intellectuele eigend…

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Domain names: extensions .brussels and .vlaanderen available since 1 September 2014.

Since 1 September 2014, it has been possible to register domain names with the .brussels and .vlaanderen extensions. However, to date, this possibilit…

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Using Customer Payment Data as Effective Marketing Tool

Although winning and maintaining customer loyalty is a key goal for any retailer, it is especially important for businesses that specialize in niche p…

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Electronic Identification and Trust Services (eIDAS) Regulation Published

The proposed EU Regulation on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market has now been adopted, wi…

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ECJ Ruling on Meaning of ‘Parody’

On 3 September 2014, the ECJ handed down its judgment in Case C-201/13 Deckmyn en Vrijheidsfonds in which it gave guidance regarding the parody except…

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GPEN Privacy Sweep 2014: mobile apps

We gaven het in mei van dit jaar al mee: de GPEN, een wereldwijd netwerk van nationale Privacycommissies en -commissarissen, heeft een nieuwe sweep ui…

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