Stijn Debaene
FieldfisherWith longstanding experience of representing clients before both the Belgian courts and the European Court of Justice, Fieldfisher‘s team is well positioned to handle issues ranging from design rights, to patents to database rights. Stijn Debaene heads up the practice and is geared to assist clients from the media and telecoms industries with a wide range of IP mandates. Experienced IP litigator Hakim Haouideg’s practice incorporates technology disputes including unfair trade practices and domain name disputes. Serge Flecijn further extends the patent and trade mark expertise at the firm’s Brussels base.
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Testimonials
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‘Extremely competent teams in IP litigation and privacy-related matters. Practical experience and clear concise advice.’
‘Stijn Debaene is a very strong litigator, with clear and clever litigation strategy. A no-nonsense lawyer.’
‘Hakim Haouideg and his team are very experienced and knowledgeable in the field of all trade mark proceedings, in Belgium and in the EU.’
‘Hakim Haouideg provided very useful advice. ’
‘Very timely provision of advice. Proactive in their approach.’
Key clients
- 1661 Inc.
- AGC
- Ads & Data NV
- Alpargatas
- Ansys
- Atos Worldline
- Billtrust
- BV Koninklijke Van Kempen & Begeer
- Crocs Inc. & Jibbitz LLC
- Epic Games Inc.
- Forbes LLC
- Fresh Foods
- Fujirebio
- Infrabel
- La Fille d'O
- Magic Access Ltd
- Play Media NV
- Puratos
- Proximus
- Sazerac Brands
- State of Madhya Pradesh
- Streamz
- Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.
- Telenet
- The Government Of Canada
- Vitra
Work highlights
- Representing Proximus in several ongoing patent infringement proceedings.
- Representing Ads & Data in an image rights dispute with cyclist Remco Evenepoel.
- Representing Puratos in trade mark infringement proceedings against Barry Callebaut.
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Hakim Haouideg
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Stijn Debaene