Edward Taelman

Overview

Edward Taelman specializes in intellectual property and e-commerce.

He has extensive experience in conducting IP litigation before the Belgian and European courts in a wide variety of sectors such as e-commerce, TMT, luxury goods and life sciences, including on a number of landmark cases concerning the liability of online intermediaries for third party content.

Edward also assists clients in non-contentious matters in this field of expertise, including licensing agreements, franchise agreements, R&D and collaboration agreements.

He also advises clients on the regulatory framework for digital services where he assist clients on compliance with regulations such as the Digital Services Act, the AI Act and the General Product Safety Regulation.

Edward is a member of INTA (the Internet Committee), AIPPI, EPLAW and the editorial board of IE-forum.be, a specialised website that collects all recent European and Belgian jurisprudence on IP rights. He regularly speaks on intellectual property topics and has been quoted by both Belgian and international press on IP and Digital Regulation topics.

Career & Education

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Ghent University, Master of Law, 2010
Stanford Law School, Master of Laws, Law, Science, and Technology, 2012
- Ghent University, Master of Law, 2010
- Stanford Law School, Master of Laws, Law, Science, and Technology, 2012
Belgium
Unified Patent Court
European Court
Luxembourg
- Belgium
- Unified Patent Court
- European Court
- Luxembourg
The International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), Member

International Trademark Association (INTA) Brand Restrictions Committee

IE-forum.be, editorial board
- The International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), Member
- International Trademark Association (INTA) Brand Restrictions Committee
- IE-forum.be, editorial board
Dutch
French
English
- Dutch
- French
- English

[Edward] brings a profound knowledge of national and international patent law and crosses technical disciplines with ease.

— IAM Patent 1000, 2023

Edward's Insights

Press Coverage | 04.15.24

L’IA et le monde juridique: “Les cabinets qui n’utilisent pas l’IA vont disparaître”

Firm News | 3 min read | 04.01.24
Crowell Earns Top Rankings in Legal 500 EMEA 2024
Event | 03.27.24
Hallucinating Deepfakes and Their Human Friends: Life, Love and Law in times of Generative AI
Press Coverage | 03.22.24
Friday Round-up: Ashurst Partner’s Triumphant Return

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Representative Matters

Represented a large e-commerce platform before the Court of Justice and the Belgian and Luxembourgish courts in trademark infringement cases initiated by a luxury brand where the latter alleges that our client is liable for trademark infringements of third parties.
Represented an international telecom provider before the Belgian courts in enforcing its colour trademark against a competing telecom provider.
Represented TripAdvisor in proceedings before the Belgian courts in relation to its liability for negative reviews.
Represented a tech company in patent revocation proceedings in relation to a patent on geolocalization technology.
Represented Belgium’s largest publishing company in numerous proceedings in relation to freedom of speech, libel and defamation cases.
Assisted an online payment services provider with on its compliance project with the Digital Services Act.
Assisted an e-commerce platform with its compliance with the General Product Safety Regulation.