Emmanuel Cornu

Emmanuel Cornu specialises in intellectual property law (trademarks, patents, designs and copyrights) and competition law.

He assists national and international clients in the luxury sector, food and telecommunications before both the Belgian courts and the Benelux court, the European Court of Justice, the General Court and the EUIPO (European Union trademark litigation). He also regularly acts as an arbitrator.

Emmanuel is registered as UPC representative (Unified Patent Court). With our team of experienced patent litigators, Simont Braun is ready to navigate clients through the early days of the UPC as the new court develops.

He has been elected as a President of the Benelux Council for Intellectual Property. He has also been appointed by the FPS Economy, for his legal expertise, as a member of the Industrial Property section of the Council for Intellectual Property, whose main mission is to provide the Minister responsible for intellectual property with advice on any matter relating to intellectual property, in particular in the law-making process.

For many years, he has been a member of the committee for patent proxy approvals within the Office for Intellectual Property (2005-2017).

Emmanuel is ranked in Band 1 in Intellectual Property by Chambers & Partners, as a Leading Individual by The Legal 500, and in the Gold Band in trademarks by WTR1000. He is Recommended in trademarks by Who’s Who Legal (Global Leaders Guide) and recognised as a Trademark Star by IP Stars.

Emmanuel has been appointed as a third party decider accredited by the French Bar Association of Brussels in the context of the binding third party decision procedure (more information available here).

Emmanuel Cornu is a member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), in which context he is the administrator of the Belgian group and president of the Trademarks Commission. He is also a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), and of MARQUES, the European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA), the International Literary and Artistic Association (ALAI), the Benelux Association of Trade Mark and Design Law (B.M.M.), and the European Patent Lawyers’ Association (EPLAW).

Emmanuel was the president of the Belgian delegation to the Council of European Bars (C.C.B.E.). He is a former secretary of the Brussels Bar and a former member of the Brussels Bar Council. He has also been president of the “Conférence du Jeune Barreau de Bruxelles” (Young Bar Association).

Since 2009, he is the president, on a pro bono basis, of the Grandes Conférences Catholiques.

Emmanuel is the editor-in-chief of the Revue de Droit Intellectuel-L’Ingénieur-conseil (ICIP, Larcier) and is the author and co-author of several publications on intellectual property rights, including the fifth edition of Précis des Marques with Antoine Braun (Larcier, 2009, 1070 pages) and Les marques: marque Benelux, marque internationale, marque communautaire (Guide juridique de l’entreprise, Kluwer, 2007).

UCLouvain (Law, 1990) – Magna cum laude

University of Leyden, Netherlands (Degree in International and European Law, 1991)

Member of Brussels Bar since 1991

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Publications

"Les Marques"
Volume I, livre 99.1 au sein du » Guide juridique de l’entreprise », Wolters Kluwer, 2022, 104 pages.
1 June, 2022
"Genuine Use of Trademarks: Benelux"
in Genuine Use of Trademarks - AIPPI Law Series - Second Edition, Wolters Kluwer, 2021, pp. 49-77.
4 November, 2021
"Arrêt ‘Ferrari’ : étendue matérielle de l'usage sérieux d'une marque et charge de la preuve de cet usage"
E. CORNU et J. KEVER, "Arrêt 'Ferrari': l'usage sérieux d'une marque", J.D.E., 2021, p. 176-179
7 May, 2021
L’« aggiornamento » du droit Benelux des marques : la transposition de la directive « Marques »
J.T., 2020/31, n° 6827 - 3 octobre 2020, p. 625-637
3 October, 2020
"Droit de la propriété intellectuelle - Actualité législative et jurisprudence récente de la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne"
N. Berthold, D. Borgniet, F. Brison, J. Cabay, V. Cassiers, E. Cornu, M. Cousté, M. Da Costa, S. Hermoye, F. Jonquères, J. Ligot, O. Mignolet, A. Puttemans, M. Sahagun, C. Standaert, P.-Y. Thoumsin, 1ère edition, Larcier, 2019, 380 p.
26 April, 2019
"Le droit Benelux en mouvement: l'élargissement des procédures devant l'office Benelux de la propriété intellectuelle et les nouvelles compétences juridictionnelles de la Cour de justice Benelux"
J.T., n° 6744, octobre 2018, pp. 725-730
26 October, 2018
"A propos de l’intérêt à agir en déchéance d’une marque, à la charge et à l’objet de la preuve", note d’observations sous Mons, 12 juin 2017, Delfipar et Cora / Coravin
RDC, Larcier, 2018-5, p. 466-479
26 October, 2018
« Trademarks: genuine use - Benelux »​
AIPPI Law Series, 2018, 2018, p. 43-70
17 October, 2018
« Registrability of 3D Trademarks »
Ing.-Cons., 2018/3
10 October, 2018
« L’usage normal ou sérieux d’une marque au Benelux »
Ing.-Cons., 2018/2, p. 225 à 254
22 June, 2018
« La confidentialité de la correspondance entre avocats » in La déontologie en pratique, sous la dir. de M. Dal
Larcier, 2017, p. 38-63.
15 June, 2017
« A propos de l’exclusion de certaines marques de forme », note d’observations sous Comm. Bruxelles francophone, 16ech., 4 novembre 2016, affaire « Capsules Nespresso »
Ing.-Cons., 2017, p. 751 à 759
11 January, 2017
J. BUSSE, E. CORNU, C. DEKONINCK, F. DE VISSCHER, D. OP DE BEECK, G. PHILIPSEN et H. VANHEES, "Requirements for protection of designs"
ICIP, 2016/3, p. 529-543
12 September, 2016
"'Arrêt Tommy Hilfiger': injonctions visant à faire cesser des atteintes à des droits de propriété intellectuelle (marché physique ou en ligne)"
Larcier, Journal de droit européen, 2016, p. 264-266
25 August, 2016
"2001-2002 ou la nostalgie du Mekong"
"La Conférence", Magazine de la Conférence du Jeune Barreau de Bruxelles, 2015-2016, n° 2, p. 32-33
26 May, 2016
"Les motifs absolus et relatifs de refus d'enregistrement et de nullité à la lumière du nouveau 'Paquet Marques'"
IRDI, 2016/1, p. 31-48
26 February, 2016
E. CORNU et P. CAMPOLINI, « L’adaptation du règlement Bruxelles Ibis à la Juridiction unifiée du brevet et à la Cour de justice Benelux »
in « Le DIP au quotidien », sous la coord. de N. Van Crombrugghe, Larcier, 2015, p. 53 à 72
14 September, 2015
“Partial designs”
Ing.-Cons., 2018/3
"Hommage au Professeur Guy Cornu",
"Louvain Médical", décembre 2016, p. 746-747
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