As in other fields of the law, in recent years many essential issues
relating to Intellectual Property law have been resolved by important
decisions of the European Court of Justice. This book contains over
forty "landmark" decisions with respect to copyright, trade marks,
databases and design rights, as ruled upon by the European
Court of Justice in recent years.
Authors
Harmonisation of IP law and the creation of the biggest single market in the world
has brought both opportunities and threats. A field in which harmonisation
of IP law is pre-eminent, is customs surveillance on counterfeiting. In 2008
the CAPIP member firms understood the opportunities and created a unique
coalition of 24 law firms with offices in 35 European jurisdictions to fight
counterfeiting side by side with customs authorities.
This cooperation 'in practice' and the shared interest in the further
harmonisation of IP laws has led to this book, the first of a series, providing
inside views on the most important IP decisions of the European Court of
Justice in recent years.
As each decision gives the answers to specific questions related to
a dispute before a national court in a particular Member State, the
editors have, as much as possible, looked for authors within CAPIP who
are familiar with the relevant national jurisdiction, to summarise and
analyse the decisions. Such authors know their legal system and are
best placed to explain the history of the national case, as they can read
the original language in which the dispute has arisen.
Editors
Peter Claassen studied law at Nijmegen University where he obtained
his Masters degree. In addition Peter obtained an LLM degree at Miami
Law School. Peter is a partner at AKD (the Netherlands) and chairs
the IP&T practice group. He has been involved in a great number of
complicated and ground breaking proceedings going up to the European
Court of Justice.
Jeff Keustermans is a member of the Brussels and the New York Bar. He
studied law in Antwerp, Leuven and Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.). Jeff is head of
the IP/IT Department of & De Bandt advocaten | avocats in Brussels, and a
guest lecturer at various universities. He has published over 50 articles and
several books on Belgian and European law relating to IP and IT law.
