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Firm News 23 results

Firm News | 3 min read | 04.01.24

Crowell Earns Top Rankings in Legal 500 EMEA 2024

Brussels and Doha – April 1, 2024: The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) 2024 edition has recognized 16 practice areas and 11 lawyers in Crowell & Moring’s Brussels and Doha offices. The 11 individual lawyers received 18 total rankings across the 16 different practice areas.
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Firm News | 3 min read | 03.19.24

IP Litigator Edward Taelman Joins Crowell & Moring’s Brussels Office

Edward Taelman has joined Crowell & Moring’s Brussels office as a partner. His litigation experience and technical knowledge will strengthen the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group, particularly in the area of trademark litigation.

Firm News | 2 min read | 03.14.24

Chambers Ranks Crowell Lawyers and Practices in 2024 Europe Guide

Chambers and Partners has ranked five Crowell & Moring practice groups and seven individual lawyers in the Chambers Europe 2024 guide.

Client Alerts 17 results

Client Alert | 6 min read | 10.29.24

EU Court of Justice Rules on Copyright Protection for Non-EU Designers of Works of Applied Art: A Kwantum Leap?

On October 24, 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its highly anticipated ruling in the Kwantum v. Vitra case (C-227/23). In short, the CJEU held that EU Member States must afford copyright protection for works of applied art (i.e., furniture, lighting, home appliances, etc.) that meet the originality-requirement, regardless of the country of origin of these works or the nationality of the author.
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Client Alert | 5 min read | 06.24.24

Brussels Court of Appeal Prohibits the Rebranding of a Generic Pharmaceutical Into the Originator Reference Product in the Framework of Parallel Import

The Judgment of the Brussels Court of Appeal is the latest development in the saga in Belgium where a Belgian parallel importer, PI Pharma NV, imported a generic Sandoz product from the Netherlands, repackaged and rebranded them, and placed them on the Belgian market alleging they were a Novartis’ originator product.
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Client Alert | 22 min read | 05.31.24

2024: An Overview of New and Upcoming Belgian and EU Laws and Regulations – UPDATED in May 2024

At the beginning of the year, we brought to your attention that a number of important Belgian and EU legislative changes are likely to have an impact in 2024: there are new laws that have been adopted and proposals that are expected to firm up into law.
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Publications 9 results

Publication | 01.12.24

Overal genAI: een festival van juridische onzekerheid

Event Confederation

Publication | 04.16.23

Apps are ruling

Healthcare Business Today

Events 1 result

Event | 10.05.17, 10:00 AM UTC - 12:00 PM UTC

IBJ-IJE Deep Dive

This deep dive will take a practical look at how best to create your company’s IP strategy and defend your all-important IP rights. Actual cases will be the basis for a discussion about some commonly occurring IP issues, including some current hot topics. Throughout the deep dive, we will give you a taste of what can happen if your IP is not properly protected.
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Webinars 11 results

Webinar | 03.26.24, 12:00 PM CET - 1:45 PM CET

Get Your Act Together: The AI Act is Coming!

In this webinar, we will start with a general overview of the AI Act, the first horizontal legislation worldwide to regulate the safety of AI-systems, before moving to a few focal points.

Webinar | 05.11.23, 12:00 PM CEST - 2:00 PM CEST

AI-Powered Chatbots: Mythical Super Creature or Legal Trojan Horse?

In collaboration with IBJ
With ChatGPT 4, the world saw for the first time what AI-powered chatbots are capable of: writing a love poem, drafting a geography presentation or explaining the principles of patent law so a 4 year old can understand, anything seems within reach. No wonder that time-strapped workers would consider outsourcing part of their assignments to these user-friendly robots.
However impressive the technology, organisations are reluctant to adopt AI-based solutions for gathering information and generating new content, such as logo’s, texts or images. The data set used to train the algorithms are notoriously unknown, the output may be unreliable or infringing third party rights.

Webinar | 05.05.22, 7:00 AM CDT - 9:00 AM CDT

EU Data Strategy: How the Data Governance Act and the Data Act will Facilitate the Access to and the Reuse of Data

Expectations for the data economy are high: data will fuel innovation and growth in various sectors, especially in the life sciences, automotive and energy industries. The EU has the ambition to become the leader in a data-driven society by creating a digital single market in which harmonized rules apply. The Data Governance Act and the Data Act are cornerstones in this strategy and will encourage the sharing of non-personal data between governments (B2G) and businesses (B2B).
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Blog Posts 11 results

Blog Post | 06.01.21

Addressing Wrinkles in California’s Threatened Misappropriation of Trade Secrets Law

Crowell & Moring’s Trade Secrets Trends