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On the 1st of June 2023, the European patent landscape has undergone a substantial change with the launch of the Unified Patent Court (‘UPC’) and the Unitary Patent.

Our Brussels IP/Life Sciences team has authored a booklet on the case-law of the Court of justice of the EU (CJEU) regarding supplementary protection certificates (SPCs).

De Europese Commissie zet in op meer staatssteun voor innovatieve ondernemingen en duurzaamheid. Dit blijkt uit de voorgestelde wijziging van de Algemene groepsvrijstellingsverordening waarover tot 8 december a.s. een consultatie loopt.

On 25 November 2020, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation on data governance and a related Q&A. On 1 October 2021, the Council of the European Union agreed position on the Data Governance Act.

The Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has delivered its opinion on two draft cooperation agreements (one legislative agreement and one implementing agreement) relating in particular to the extension of the scope of the Covid Safe Ticket (CST).

A recent decision of the Belgian Council of State shines a first light on the enforcement of the Schrems II ruling of the European Court of Justice in Belgium.

De Europese Commissie heeft op 23 februari 2022 de Europese dataverordening (“Data Act”) voorgesteld, die het delen van data beoogt te bevorderen. Steeds meer gegevens worden door mensen en machines gegenereerd, bewaard en hergebruikt.

The Belgian Data Protection Authority published an interesting decision of its Litigation chamber. The content of the decision is not completely new, but it provides (or recalls) some relevant elements for personal data practitioners.

The Belgian DPA fined an NGO and a researcher both active in the fight against disinformation for violating GDPR provisions.

On 2 February 2022, the Belgian Data Protection Authority considered that the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) developed by Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe (IAB) violates the GDPR.

In de nieuwe podcastaflevering van Stibbe Legal Insights spreken Femke van der Voort, gespecialiseerd in intellectueel eigendom, en Paul van der Hulst, mede-eigenaar en managing director van MoviĜo, over het beschermen van intellectuele eigendomsrechten.

The CJEU decision in the National Orchestra of Belgium decision shakes up employer copyright in the Netherlands. With new consent and compensation requirements, are your employment contracts still airtight? Discover the implications of the decision here.

In a recent opinion delivered by Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona, the European Court of Justice is asked to interpret key provisions of the GDPR concerning the rights of individuals whose personal data has been unlawfully processed.

The Digital Services Act is now fully applicable in the European Union, regulating online intermediaries and platforms to protect consumers and businesses in online services.

A recent decision by the litigation chamber of the Belgian DPA can be put into perspective with the decision of the Supreme Court of 7 October 2021 considering that the DPA has to deal with a complaint filed by a person whose data had not been processed.