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Born in Brussels in 1975; Admitted, 2000, Brussels.
Education: University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Lic. Jur., 1998); University of Paris II, France (Erasmus Exchange Program, 1998); University of Ghent (Special Degree in European Law, 1999); Queen Mary & Westfield College, UK (LL.M. in Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition, 2000).
Languages: French, Dutch and English.
Professional activities: Olivier is partner in ALTIUS' Intellectual Property department, specialising in trademarks, patents and IPR enforcement. He is a member of the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee of ECTA and WCO Secure Working Group, a member of INTA, AIPPI and the Belgian Alliance against IP Theft. Olivier is a regular speaker at seminars on anti-counterfeiting and other IPR-related subjects.
Publications:
- Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Through Border Measures. Law and Practice in the EU (O. Vrins & Marius Schneider, eds), Oxford University Press, 2006;
- Case comment on Sprints Ltd. Vs. Comptroller of Customs and Chipie Design SA, Privy Council (16 December 1999), European Intellectual Property Review, 9 [2001] N-128;
- “Intellectual Property Licensing and Competition Law: Some News From the Front – The Role of Market Power and ‘Double Jeopardy’ in the E.C. Commission’s New Deal”, European Intellectual Property Review, 12 [2001] 576;
- Le Règlement (CE) n° 1383/2003 du Conseil des Communautés européennes du 22 juillet 2003: "le droit douanier élargit ses frontières”, Intellectuele Rechten-Droits Intellectuels (IRDI) 2 [2004] 101;
- Co-authoring the Belgium and Luxembourg Chapters of the INTA Guide to the Madrid Agreement and Protocol (with Christophe Ronse, ALTIUS);
- Case comments for:
- the Butterworths IP&T database;
- the World Trademark Law Report;
- Dow Jones Newswires;
- "Trade Mark Use in Transit: EU-Phony or Cacophony?”, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Oxford University Press), Launch Issue (Vol 1 Issue 1, November 2005) – with Marius Schneider;
- Commission's Action Plan to combat counterfeiting and privacy ...", Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Oxford University Press) (Vol 1 Issue 7, June 2006) - with Marius Schneider;
- The EU Offensive against IP offences: should right-holders be offended ?", Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Oxford University Press) (Vol 1 Issue 3, February 2006) - with Marius Schneider;
- "La répression de la contrefaçon et de la piraterie de droîts de propriété intéllectuelle. La loi du 15 mai 2007: instrument à la pointe ou texte épineux ?", Journal des Tribunaux, 15 March 2008, 181 - with Frédérique Hostier and Marius Schneider;
- "What's new in relation to border measures and criminal law in Belgium", ECTA Gazette No. 55 (Autumn 2007) - with Frédérique Hostier and Marius Schneider;
- "Look-alikes, counterfeits in disguise ?", WCO News No. 54, (October 2007), 41;
- "Class Actions from Jacobs to Jacob", World Intellectual Property Review 2008, 38;
- Together with Marius Schneider, Olivier maintains the website www.bordermeasures.com ;
- "Evoluties in het Octrooirecht. Overzicht van rechtspraak 2003-2006" (Review of case law, Patent Law, 2003-2006). Revue de droit commercial belge, 2007, 423-480 (with P. de Jong and C. Ronse).
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