Mr Olivier Vrins Partner ALTIUS - Lawyer Biography - International Law Office

International Law Office

Lawyer Biography

Mr Olivier Vrins

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.

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property

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).