The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force in May 2018. It is the most significant legal development in the sphere of privacy and data protection in the EU in the past 20 years. This book analyses the GDPR’s essential changes and related challenges that every lawyer, academic and privacy enthusiast should bear in mind.

Dit is de nieuwe tiende editie, die in september 2019 verschijnt. In dit wetboek worden de belangrijkste en meest relevante basisteksten op het gebied van het intellectuele eigendomsrecht bijeengebracht. Het wetboek is volledig aangepast aan de inwerkingtreding van het Wetboek van economisch recht (WER) en aan de opname van de intellectuele eigendom in dit wetboek.

This volume is a compendium of the Sir Hugh Laddie Lectures delivered at University College London (UCL) in the period between 2009 and 2018. This is a public lecture series organised by the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL) at UCL Faculty of Laws in honour of IBIL’s founder – Professor Sir Hugh Laddie.

Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the EU Member States provides a timely overview and thorough analysis of intellectual property rights enforcement in the EU Member States.

This book analyses a select number of incarnations of the originality requirement in different branches of Belgian law in order to establish whether common elements or a common root can be found. These findings will subsequently be applied to the practice of digitalization in law in order to gain a better understanding of how the concept of originality should be interpreted in this matter.

In dit wetboek worden de belangrijkste en meest relevante basisteksten op het gebied van het intellectuele eigendomsrecht bijeengebracht. De keuze van de opgenomen teksten gebeurde in functie van de behoeften van de dagelijkse juridische praktijk.

In dit boek vinden zowel juristen als niet-juristen een antwoord op 101 concrete juridische vragen die een ondernemer, zelfstandige, werkgever, werknemer of bestuurder zich geregeld stelt in verband met (het recht op) mededinging en de contractuele modulering ervan via concurrentiebedingen.

This rise of a particular kind of European Union legislation known as the ‘optional instrument’ is a novel trend in the context of EU law, and one that until now has not been comprehensively mapped or explored. This study examines and discusses existing and proposed EU Optional Instruments (OIs) in different fields of European law, including company law, intellectual property law and procedural law (such as the European Company, the Community ...

This book considers the challenges of creating appropriate intellectual property frameworks in developing economies. It focuses on the small island states of the Pacific region to explore and illustrate the many dilemmas, drawing together considerations of policy, theories of development and law, and empirical studies to suggest solutions and possible strategies.