Chambers Review
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Intellectual Property - Belgium
What the Team is Known For
Janson has a strong focus on trade mark disputes, advising clients on invalidity and infringement proceedings. The law firm also represents clients in breaches of copyright litigation, patent infringement proceedings, domain name disputes and the theft of trade secrets. Team members additionally act on anti-counterfeiting measures, as well as non-contentious matters such as intellectual property licensing agreements. The team has a number of clients from the life sciences, fashion and technology sectors.
Strengths
Janson take effective action. The team are very available and efficient.
We appreciate Janson's quick understanding of the underlying technical issues, their powerful arguments and the fact they are very attentive to customer feedback.
The Janson lawyers are efficient and timely.
Janson have really been able to deliver. The team are of a high quality and are pragmatic and responsive.
Work Highlights
Janson represented ChemCom in proceedings against Givaudan related to the violation of trade secrets and the filing of a patent application in violation of contractual provisions.
Notable practitioners
Mireille Buydens has a broad contentious intellectual property practice that entails representing clients in disputes over trade marks, copyright, patents and trade secrets.
Mireille Buydens' strengths are her experience, quick thinking, careful argumentation and efficiency.
Mireille Buydens has an ideal pragmatic manner in which to deal with issues and provides quality advice that the client requires.
Mireille Buydens is responsive and has a quick and clear understanding of issues and what needs to be dealt with.
It is fantastic to work with Mireille Buydens. Whenever I get asked to recommend someone, she is always my first pick.
Hans Dhondt is particularly active in trade mark disputes. He offers further experience in patent proceedings and litigation concerning the publication of books.