Liedekerke
The ‘young, highly educated and extremely friendly’ team at Liedekerke handles advisory, transactional and contentious IP work. The team is notably experienced in soft IP matters, with additional strength in patent litigation. Etienne Kairis heads up the practice and is well positioned to plan and enforce domestic and cross-border strategies for IP protection. Sarah Van Den Brande frequently leverages her IP litigation experience to draft and negotiate IP and IT agreements. Bernard Vanbrabant is praised for his ’outstanding academic merit’, while Myrtle Gevers is a key contact for advisory work in the IP space.
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Testimonials
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‘Liedekerke are experts in their field, and are responsive and pragmatic.’
‘We have worked with Liedekerke for various counselling matters and have always been pleased with the clear and concise advice we got. They know the law and the practice and more importantly, they have a very good way with communication.’
‘We have worked with Sarah Van Den Brande. She is a brilliant lawyer with exceptional communication skills. She responds very quickly and is very result-oriented. ’
‘The team is very knowledgeable when it comes to IP, also when a deep dive is required.’
‘Etienne Kairis is very pleasant to work with; Dorien Taeymans has excellent legal skills; Sarah Van Den Brande is approachable and hands-on.’
‘The Liederkerke team is young, highly educated and extremely friendly. It's fantastic how they manage to combine tradition and modernity.’
‘I have been working with Sara Van Den Brande and with Bernard Vanbrabant for years. Two absolute top professionals with outstanding academic merits. They are not only my preferred contact for IP matters in Belgium. I also call on them from time to time to structure Pan-European projects. I couldn't imagine more pleasant contacts for the Benelux.’
Key clients
- Communauté Française de Belgique
- Sonaca
- L’Oreal
- IMPS
- Agicoa
- Belgian State
- VAAAM AG (RYDE GmbH -KodakOne)
- Solvay
- Greenyard
- KIA Motors
- Vlaamse Nieuwsmedia
- Lidl
- Synergia Medical
- Holland Cooper
- Revolt Zycling
Work highlights
- Representing the three main Belgian press publishers' alliances in litigation before the Constitutional Court in relation to the action for annulment brought by two major information society service providers.
- Assisting the AGICOA group with several litigation proceedings against BAVP; against Telenet, Proximus, Orange, Voo and Brutélé, the main Belgian cable operators; and against Orange.
- Assisting IMPS, worldwide licensors of the Smurfs, in the context of an infringement lawsuit related to the exploitation of an adaptation of a movie of Benoît Brisefer's adventure 'The Red Taxis'.
Lawyers
Next Generation Partners
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Etienne Kairis