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Liberius welcomes Ana Jankov as new partner

Liberius is proud to welcome Ana Jankov as a partner, further strengthening the firm’s expertise in privacy, data protection and emerging digital regulation.

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Legal Geek Europe 2026

Legal Geek Europe returns on 14 April 2026 at De Hallen Studio’s, Amsterdam.

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Strelia welcomes a new partner to lead its IP and Technology practice

Strelia is proud to welcome Tom De Coster as Partner to lead its IP and Technology practice.

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24/03/26
2026 AI-inzichten en trends voor advocatenkantoren

Ontdek hoe advocatenkantoren AI gebruiken om de omzet te verhogen, ethische…

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13/03/26
A Protocol for IP Disputes at the Brussels Enterprise Court

The Dutch-speaking Enterprise Court of Brussels has long been a central for…

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Het is de perfecte manier voor advocaten, bedrijfsjuristen, paralegals, fiscalisten, notarissen, gerechtsdeurwaarders, en elke andere juridische professional, om op de hoogte te blijven van wetgevende initiatieven, nieuwe rechtspraak en rechtsleer.

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Are dynamic IP addresses personal data? Europe’s highest court says they are in certain circumstances

On 19 October 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued its judgment in Patrick Breyer v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

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The CJEU determines scope of implicit consent of authors to use their works

Earlier this month the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) has rendered a decision in the Marc Soulier, Sara Dokes v. Premier Ministre, Ministre de la…

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Adidas Three-Stripe Trademark vs. Nike Blaugrana Stripes: Earn Your Stripes!

For more than one hundred years, generations of FC Barcelona fans have witnessed amazing players wearing the famous Blaugrana shirt with garnet and bl…

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EU General Court Finds Body-builder Silhouette is Descriptive and Cannot Be Registered as Trade Mark

On 29 September 2016, the EU General Court (“GC”) ruled on the validity of a trade mark registration sought by Universal Protein Supplements Corp. (“U…

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Court of Cassation: right to privacy encompasses (online) ‘right to be forgotten’

On 29 April 2016, the Court of Cassation dismissed an appeal lodged by the Belgian newspaper Le Soir against the ruling of the Court of Appeal of Lièg…

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Court of Appeal rejects the Belgian courts’ jurisdictional competence regarding Facebook Inc. and Facebook Ire…

On 29 June 2016 the Court of Appeal of Brussels rejected the suit filed by the Belgian Privacy Commission against Facebook Inc., Facebook Ireland and …

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Is aanbieder van een WIFI-netwerk verantwoordelijk voor IP inbreuken van een derde gebruiker?

In vrijwel alle openbare ruimtes is er toegang tot een WiFi- netwerk voorzien. Het komt dan ook af en toe voor dat een gebruiker van een WiFi-netwerk …

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New data retention obligations for providers of publicly available electronic communications services or netwo…

On 18 July 2016, the Belgian Official Gazette published the Act of 29 May 2016 on the collection and storage of data in the electronic communication s…

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“Losers” lose: transfer of a back-up copy of software, unless authorized, is not allowed

The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”), in the Aleksandrs Ranks and Jurijs Vasilevics case (C-166/15), held that although in applying the UsedSoft case…

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Cable transmission, not retransmission: Telenet prevails

On 30 September 2016, the Belgian Court of Cassation decided to partly annul the Court of Appeal of Antwerp’s decision of 4 February 2013 in which the…

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EU Code of Conduct for mobile health apps almost finalized

A code of conduct for mobile health (mHealth) apps has been drafted by the European Commission (the “Code of Conduct”) to guide mHealth-app developers…

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E-mails stored outside the US cannot be claimed by the US Government

On 14 July 2016 the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (the Court of Appeals) rendered a judgment in the “Warrant case” (or the “Mi…

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Likelihood of confusion in just one part of the EU, EU trade mark infringement and prohibition order in that p…

On 22 September 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) rendered an interesting judgment in case C‑223/15 regarding the question whe…

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GDPR – Processing of sensitive personal data

This update aims to provide you with a practical overview of the most relevant changes resulting from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a…

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Lucasfilm vs The Lightsaber Academy: Who is The Real Jedi?

It's a good time to be a Star Wars fan! Not only the first new epic Lucasfilm 's spinoff Star Wars soon arrives in theaters (“Rogue One: A Star Wars S…

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Dynamic IP Addresses Deemed Personal Data

The Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") ruled that dynamic IP addresses constitute personal data within the meaning of Article 2(a) of Dir…

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The new EU Network and Information Systems Directive has entered in force

The NIS (network and information systems) Directive was adopted on 6 July 2016 and entered into force on 8 August 2016. This is the first European-wid…

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Can you resell your software back-up copy? CJEU provides further guidance after Oracle/UsedSoft

On 12 October 2016 the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") rendered another decision regarding the sale of used software within the EU/EEA…

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Dynamic IP-addresses can be "personal data" says EU Court of Justice

On October 19, 2016, the European Court of Justice decided on the question whether or not dynamic IP-addresses constitute "personal data" in…

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Privacy authorities remain concerned about the Privacy Shield

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (“WP29”) remain concerned about the recently adopted Privacy Shield as follows from their recent statemen…

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