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Fernand de Visscher
Partner
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+32 (0)2 533 17 18Fernand de Visscher
Partner
Fernand de Visscher
is a specialist in intellectual property. He notably handles questions relating to patents and to the protection of designs and artistic and literary works. Fernand’s experience also includes media law, distribution (dealerships, franchises, etc.), computer science, the internet, domain names, including contract law and competition issues in these fields.
He assists Belgian and international enterprises in these areas, covering a wide range of structural and contractual operations and disputes requiring resolution via negotiation, mediation or pleadings before all Belgian and European courts.
Fernand de Visscher is also a member of our Supreme Court team and handles those matters relating to intellectual property, market practices and competition law.
He is a former lecturer at the Centre for International Studies in Intellectual Property (CEIPI, Strasbourg) and was visiting lecturer at UCLouvain from 2007 to 2017.
Fernand is the author and co-author of a number of publications in these areas of practice, including Précis du droit d’auteur et des droits voisins (2000) and La saisie-description et sa réforme (2010).
He is a member of the editorial board of Revue de Droit Intellectuel l’Ingénieur-Conseil and of Journal des Tribunaux.
He is ranked as a Senior Statesperson in Intellectual Property by Chambers & Partners, in the Silver Band in Patents by iAM Patent and recognised as a Patent Star by IP Stars. He is Recommended in Patents by Who’s Who Legal (Global Leaders Guide).
Fernand de Visscher is also a member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) and a former president of the Belgian group, and of the International Literary and Artistic Association (ALAI), the Benelux Association of Trade Mark and Design Law (BMM), the Licensing Executives’ Society (LES) and the European Patent Lawyers’ Association (EPLAW), of which he was a co-founder and secretary from 2000 to 2005).
- UCLouvain (Philosophy, 1974; Law, 1976)
- Member of Brussels Bar since 1976