
Intellectual Property
Our IP practice, valued by clients for its expertise and responsiveness, reflects the fact that intellectual property has become one of the main driving forces behind the business of an increasing number of companies.
We have a dedicated team of lawyers handling contentious and non-contentious IP cases at both national and international levels. In order to provide a seamless service across a range of sectors and practice areas we often work closely together with other teams (IT, Competition & European Law, Trade Practices & Consumer Law, Tax, etc.) within our firm.
We also work with our trusted foreign law firms for cross-border work.

- Legal alert: decompiling licensed software allowed to correct errors
- Belgian DPA issues its advice on combatting cyberfraud through money mules
- Brexit and Schrems II?
- Het Schrems II-arrest en de gevolgen voor de praktijk (2020)
- 9th edition of the Intellectual Property Review (2020)
- La propriété intellectuelle, Tome 1 - Nature juridique
- Transferts de technologie: la sécurisation des redevances est-elle contraire au droit de la concurrence ?
- Cases Text and Materials
- Politique européenne de la Consommation
- Confidence Through Fairness
- You say Picasso, I say picaro
- EC Competition Law After Modernisation
- Copyright of Indigenous Designs
- Competition Law in the European Community
- Will "Torpedo" strikes threaten effective patent protection in Europe?
- Belgian highest Court authorizes discovery to protect foreign patents
Seminars
News
- Join us for drinks & networking at the Hotel Washington Rooftop!
- Liedekerke strengthens its leading position in the Chambers Europe 2022 rankings
- Liedekerke's expertise recognised by Chambers Global 2022
- Showing advertisement in an inbox is deemed “spam”
- Liedekerke promotes Counsels Julie De Bonnet and Sarah van den Brande to partnership
- Liedekerke's Expertise Recognised by Leaders League 2022 rankings
- The Unified Patent Court: back to reality?
- Myrtle Gevers named IP Rising Star by Managing Intellectual Property
- New standard contractual clauses for transfers of personal data to third countries
- Liedekerke announces the appointment of seven newly promoted Senior Associates
- Liedekerke recognized by The Legal 500 EMEA in the 2021 Rankings
- GST and Boehringer Ingelheim awarded Best Mid-Cap Corporate Deal by the Belgian M&A awards
- Legal News: Brexit and Schrems II
- Prolongation des soldes d'hiver 2021
- AIPPI Study Day 2020
- Ventes à distance et COVID-19 : Quel droit de rétractation pour le consommateur ?
- Usage de la marque d’autrui par un revendeur automobile: enseignements de l’arrêt BMW / Deenik, 20 ans plus tard
- Lionel Messi can validly register his last name as a trade mark, according to the ECJ
- Het Schrems II-arrest en de gevolgen voor de praktijk
- Bernard Vanbrabant participates in first ever virtual Lex Mundi Intellectual Property Practice Group meeting
- Public Sector Information: to share or not to share?
- Liedekerke contributed to the 9th edition of the Intellectual Property Review
- L’origine des produits : dans quel cas peut-on qualifier un produit que l’on vend de « local » ?
- Liedekerke achieves top rankings in Legal 500 EMEA 2020
- Liedekerke COVID-19 Resource Center
- Liedekerke recognized by Chambers Europe in the 2020 Rankings
- L’Union européenne renforce ses règles en matière de protection des consommateurs
- Newsflash: nieuwe aanbeveling GBA inzake direct marketing
- Liedekerke’s Compliance and Investigations Group
- The right to be forgotten is alive and well in Belgium
- BMM Wim Mak Award 2019
- AIPPI Study Day 2019
- Architecture & IP: Perspectives from Belgium and the Netherlands
- New legal developments regarding advertising in the automotive sector
- Séminaire droit d’auteur : développements récents dans les législations belge et européenne
- Persoonlijkheidsrechten en sponsoring
- Liedekerke contributed to the 8th edition of the Intellectual Property Review
- All crystal clear between the names on your product label: how do protected geographical indications relate to trademarks and trade names?
- Bernard Vanbrabant appointed as an expert in the Council for intellectual property.
- De nieuwe auteursrechtrichtlijn
- Liedekerke achieves excellent rankings in the Legal 500 2019
- Persoonlijkheidsrechten en sponsoring
- We're delighted to welcome Sarah van den Brande as a new IP-IT counsel in our Commercial & Litigation Group
- Liedekerke recognized by Chambers Europe in the 2019 Rankings
- Liedekerke helps Uber reach significant milestone
- Liedekerke advises Be-Mobile on its acquisition of French player Mediamobile
- Liedekerke successfully completes EUR15 million medical device equity financing round for Cochlear Limited
- Etienne Kairis en Marie-Caroline Morelle sprekers tijdens FEBIAC Academy
- Deuxième tome de l’ouvrage de Bernard Vanbrabant, «La propriété intellectuelle. Nature patrimoniale et régime patrimonial »
- Het Belgische auteursrecht. Artikelsgewijze commentaar / Le droit d'auteur belge. Commentaire par article
- GDPR Quiz 2018
- GDPR Quiz 2018
- Business2Students Gent and Liedekerke meet for an interesting presentation on GDPR
- L’usage d’articles de presse par les documentalistes/Het gebruik van persartikelen door documentalisten
- Automotive Newsflash - Autoliek 2 : Radio Advert: Is an importer allowed to refer the listeners to the full offer’s conditions available on its website?
- Red Credit Management Experience Day
- Liedekerke appoints 2 new partners, 1 counsel and 4 senior attorneys.
- GDPR: what's in an abbreviation?
- Bernard Vanbrabant to take part in a Conference on Innovation, Research and Competition in the EU
- La concurrence déloyale comme palliatif à l’absence de protection de la propriété intellectuelle
- Liedekerke appoints Etienne Kairis as Partner and Bernard Vanbrabant as Of Counsel
'Can recommend Liedekerke for its professionalism, responsiveness, effectiveness and for being multilingual in its communications, reporting and court pleadings.’
‘Great team with a wide diversity of expertise. All very positive people and always looking to find new ways of collaborating with other international firms.’
‘Very responsive and they provide their advice in an easy to understand format’
‘The team is hands-on and all-round at the same time.’
‘As far as I am concerned, Sarah van den Brande is partner material!’
‘The IP team is very friendly and approachable, and therefore fun to work with!’
‘Excellent expertise and very pragmatic approach. Looks for solutions. Other law firms often keep defending a position without looking at the total picture.’
‘Sarah van den Brande is a great negotiator who can convince through her expertise.’
-- Legal 500 Intellectual Property 2021
Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick’s IP Team provides ‘hands-on pragmatic advice’
Counsel Sarah van den Brande is 'very charismatic' and 'a master negotiator'.
-- Legal 500 Intellectual Property 2020
Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick’s IP lawyers are "proactive and responsive with a good commercial sense"
-- Legal 500 2016
Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick’s IP lawyers give advice that is “straight to the point” and are valued as being “humans, not robots”.
-- Legal 500 Intellectual Property 2015