Philippe Laurent
Profile: Philippe LAURENT is associate at MVVP since 2003. His activities focus on Intellectual Property, Information Technologies, E-commerce and data protection. He usually advises businesses in the software development & services, information processing, advertisement, media & entertainment and on-line commerce sectors.
Philippe is regularly involved in trademark and domain name litigations, and was consequently appointed by the CEPANI as Third-Party Decider for ".be" domain name disputes. He is aslo alternate member of the Belgian Intellectual Property Council.
His practice encompasses a wide range of commercial law matters as well, including any form of distribution (exclusive distributionship, agency, and franchising agreements), promotion and advertisement of goods and services and consumer protection compliance. He acquired a good expertise in commercial, private law and real estate litigations. He is also Senior Researcher at the Research Centre on IT and Law (CRID), where he specialises in IP licensing. In that context, he wrote extensively on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (Floss) licensing, and is part of the Expert group advising the European Commission on its open source licence. Philippe LAURENT regularly gives speeches, participates in the writing of books and publishes articles in national and international law reviews such as Auteurs & Media, Intellectuele Rechten / Droits Intellectuels, Computer Law & Security Report, la Revue du Droit des Technologies et de l'Information, Droit de la Consommation / Consumenten Rechten.
Law degree: University of Namur and Louvain-la-Neuve
Special degree:
- European Master of Law in Intellectual Property and Technologies (University of Leicester- University of Liège)
- Master in Intellectual Property Law (University of Brussels)
Languages: French, English, Dutch
Practice Areas: Commercial Transactions & Litigation,
Intellectual Property
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