Intellectual Property
Overview
Protecting business assets and navigating the complexity
All businesses from SMEs to global companies must understand and protect their IP rights if they are to maintain their market value. For some companies, the most important issues will involve brand protection or the protection of trade secrets. Others may need to protect their copyrights, and still others, such as those that rely heavily on technology and scientific research, must navigate the complexities of patents and supplementary protection certificates.
Our Brussels IP practice is one of the largest, strongest, and most diverse in Belgium and is ranked in Band 1 for Intellectual Property - Belgium by Chambers Europe. We assist clients from a broad range of industries and we are well-known for our advisory and dispute resolution skills, especially in complex, multi-jurisdictional matters. Our creative thinking combines with a tough, no-nonsense approach to litigation and this helps protect our clients both in and outside the courtroom.
Thanks to our cutting-edge tech abilities, we are able to help clients negotiate software license agreements, collaborative IT development agreements, outsourcing and other IT service agreements, and confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements.
Insights
Firm News | 3 min read | 05.30.25
IAM Ranks Crowell & Moring in Patent 1000 2025
Intellectual Asset Management recognized Crowell & Moring in its IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners guide, awarding the firm a gold band ranking as one of the top three firms handling patent litigation and transactions in Belgium, and a silver ranking for the firm’s Chicago office. The firm was also recommended nationally in the United States for trade secrets litigation. This marks the twelfth consecutive year that the firm has been ranked in the guide in Belgium.
Firm News | 4 min read | 04.14.25
Firm News | 2 min read | 03.25.25
Chambers Ranks Crowell & Moring Lawyers and Practices in 2025 Europe Guide
Client Alert | 6 min read | 03.11.25
Insights
Alternatieve manieren om uw intellectuele eigendom en knowhow te gebruiken
|04.19.23
Event Confederation
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09.01.20
Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal
Brussels Bar Association Issues Rules on Legal Privilege During Saisie Contrefaçon
|12.18.19
Kluwer Patent Blog
Putting An AI App To Work To Protect IP With Jan-Diederik Lindemans and Judith Bussé (podcast)
|11.02.21
Emerging Litigation Podcast
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07.09.21
World Trademark Review
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04.07.22
Crowell & Moring’s Trade Secrets Trends
Addressing Wrinkles in California’s Threatened Misappropriation of Trade Secrets Law
|06.01.21
Crowell & Moring’s Trade Secrets Trends
Gathering evidence of trade secret infringement in Belgium: towards discovery-like measures?
|05.27.21
Crowell & Moring’s Trade Secrets Trends
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04.30.21
Crowell & Moring’s Trade Secrets Trends
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03.08.21
Crowell & Moring’s Trade Secrets Trends
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03.02.21
Crowell & Moring’s Trade Secrets Trends
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02.22.21
Crowell & Moring’s Trade Secrets Trends
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02.15.21
Crowell & Moring’s Trade Secrets Trends
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02.08.21
Crowell & Moring’s Trade Secrets Trends
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02.01.21
Crowell & Moring’s Trade Secrets Trends
Insights
Firm News | 3 min read | 05.30.25
IAM Ranks Crowell & Moring in Patent 1000 2025
Intellectual Asset Management recognized Crowell & Moring in its IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners guide, awarding the firm a gold band ranking as one of the top three firms handling patent litigation and transactions in Belgium, and a silver ranking for the firm’s Chicago office. The firm was also recommended nationally in the United States for trade secrets litigation. This marks the twelfth consecutive year that the firm has been ranked in the guide in Belgium.
Firm News | 4 min read | 04.14.25
Firm News | 2 min read | 03.25.25
Chambers Ranks Crowell & Moring Lawyers and Practices in 2025 Europe Guide
Client Alert | 6 min read | 03.11.25
Insights
Firm News | 3 min read | 05.30.25
IAM Ranks Crowell & Moring in Patent 1000 2025
Intellectual Asset Management recognized Crowell & Moring in its IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners guide, awarding the firm a gold band ranking as one of the top three firms handling patent litigation and transactions in Belgium, and a silver ranking for the firm’s Chicago office. The firm was also recommended nationally in the United States for trade secrets litigation. This marks the twelfth consecutive year that the firm has been ranked in the guide in Belgium.
Firm News | 4 min read | 04.14.25
Firm News | 2 min read | 03.25.25
Chambers Ranks Crowell & Moring Lawyers and Practices in 2025 Europe Guide
Client Alert | 6 min read | 03.11.25