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Each day we publish several articles written by legal and tax specialists from law firms, notaries offices, the legal departments from payroll agencies and tax consultants.
It is the perfect way for lawyers at the Bar, in-house counsel, barristers, solicitors, notaries, bailiffs, paralegals and any other legal professional with an interest in Belgian and European law to keep informed of new legislative initiatives, case law, legal doctrine and all other legal developments on the Belgian legal scene!
The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office has taken two decisions this Wednesday (25 March 2015) highly anticipated by the agrochemic…
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Een uitvoerend kunstenaar neemt in het kader van zijn dienstverband deel aan een voorstelling. Hierdoor is hij houder van 'naburige rechten' (// auteu…
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In België zijn er twee manieren om een domeinnaam die door iemand anders geregistreerd is terug te krijgen. De eerste manier is via een alternati…
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Kunstschilder Luc Tuymans maakte in 2013 het schilderij ‘A Belgian Politician'. Hij zocht daarbij inspiratie in een foto genomen door persfotografe K…
Read MoreOn 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 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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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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Het vonnis van 15 januari 2015 waarbij kunstenaar Luc Tuymans veroordeeld werd voor het "reproduceren" van een foto van fotografe Katrijn Van Giel dee…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreThe 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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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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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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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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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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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'…
Read MoreThe 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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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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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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De huidige informatiemaatschappij liegt er niet om: het verwerven van kennis garandeert een concurrentievoordeel. Door middel van intellectuele eigend…
Read MoreSince 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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