Described as ‘the best pan-European IP team in Europe’, independent IP litigation firm VAN INNIS & DELARUE is a particularly popular destination for clients from the designer goods and media and entertainment sectors, and the team has a strong focus on handling contentious soft IP work from the plaintiff’s side. In Antwerp, Dieter Delarue co-chairs the practice and is described as an ’absolute star in IP jurisprudence’, who possesses a ‘strong future-proof outlook’. Brussels-based practitioner Thierry Van Innis is an authority on trade mark litigation, an area in which ’rising star’ Anthony Van Der Planken is also a name to note.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘To my mind this is the best pan-European IP team in Europe. They are a fully invested team of people, small but high powered with an innate sense of what works vs what doesn't in the realm of EU IP matters. The best there is.’
‘Anthony Van der Planken is in my opinion one of the rising stars in the field of trade mark law.’
Key clients
- Louboutin
- VF International (Kipling / Napapijri / etc.)
Work highlights
- Representing Christian Louboutin in an ongoing legal battle against Amazon, covering trade mark infringement proceedings in several jurisdictions and two preliminary reference proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
- Representing various multinational electronics and printing companies in separate copyright litigation proceedings before the Belgian courts with collecting society Reprobel and before the Court of Justice of the European Union.