Wed, 01/17/2018 (All day)
The Brussels Commercial Court has ruled in favour of Philips in a cross-border design infringement suit against Fritel, the Belgian manufacturer of a copy of Philips’ Airfryer®.
The court followed Philips’ arguments and ordered the defendant, subject to a penalty, to recall and destroy all of the infringing products and to provide Philips with a list of all third-party manufacturers and suppliers of the product as well as the countries in which and sales channels through which the products were sold. The court held that production, marketing, promotion, import, export and storage of the infringing goods infringe Philips’ design rights.
Philips was represented by Carina Gommers and Eva De Pauw from our Brussels office.
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In the landmark Philips Nokia judgement of 1 December 2011 (joined cases C 446/09 and C 495/09) the CJEU responded to a referral by the Antwerp Court of First Instance that in the context of an infringement action it is up to the holder of the intellectual property right to demonstrate that the allegedly infringing goods are intended to be put on sale in the European Union.
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The EUIPO has released its long awaited “Study on legislative measures related to online IPR infringements”, Carina Gommers and Stephanie Hermoye drafted the Belgian submission on civil measures.
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Fabienne Brison is pleased to announce the publication of the 4th edition of "Huldeboek/Hommage à Jan Corbet: Het Belgische auteursrecht. Artikelsgewijze commentaar / Le droit d'auteur belge. Commentaire par article", published by Larcier.
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Luis Fernández-Novoa Valladares from our Madrid office recently published an article on the new Spanish Patent Act in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLP) and an article about damages which was published in Spanish in the January-April edition of the “Comunicaciones en Propiedad Industrial y Derecho de la Competencia”.
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HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER has been shortlisted by Legal Media Group for the forthcoming Europe Women in Business Law Awards.