Past events

Please join us for our GDPR and Blockchain conference on 6 March, 2018 in the European Quarter, Brussels. This is your opportunity to hear Bruno Gencarelli, head of international data transfers at the European Commission who will, among other aspects of GDPR, unveil new ways for international data transfers which are being prepared by the […]

On Wednesday 15 November this Topic Day on Complex Licensing Clauses will be held at the historic Faculty Club in Leuven (BE).   Fee The fee for this topic day will be € 120,00 for LES Benelux members and for participants of the LES Licensing Course 2017 and € 180,00 for non-members. For LES members […]

Up-coming 5th Pan European LES YMC conference (YMC is for LES Members of 40 or below 40 years of age) to be held in Budapest, Hungary on 15 September 2017. We are happy to announce that we have opened the registration for conference! Please find here a link for more information and a preliminary program plan […]

The Annual General Meeting of LES Benelux and our half-day Topic Meeting “Hot Topics in Licensing and IP” were held on June 15th , 2017 at the Hilton Hotel in Rotterdam.

Celebrate World IP Day Wednesday 26th April, 2017 in Amsterdam. This year’s theme at WIPO is “Innovation – Improving Lives”. Innovation addresses shared global challenges and is improving our lives in various ways by creating better healthcare, promoting renewable energy and improving crop varieties. LES Benelux and AIPPI members will be gathering in Amsterdam, to […]

Mobile Apps : compliance from a legal contractual and regulatory point of view. Data protection, intellectual property and beyond. Smartphone applications have become a new business by themselves. However, they touch on many areas and require special considerations with regards to licensing and protection of Intellectual property rights. This meeting is a follow-up of the […]

When transactional IP involves a foreign partner, things becomes more complicated. There may be encumbrances or consequences on the transferred technology, knowledge, services or products, that you are not even aware of. What if you supply to an exporting manufacturing partner, discovering that the manufacturing process was protected in one of the outlets of your […]

On 7 September 2016 a very successful topic meeting was held at the premises of VBO-FEB in Brussels.

An overview of the recent legislative developments with respect to Base Erosion and Profit Shifting of European IP income tax regimes; Identifying the main hurdles when restructuring IP for tax optimisation purposes; Main differences between the different regimes, taking into consideration the IP rights involved, i.e. patents, trademarks, copyright, domain names and the kind of income generated; Selected […]