Start-up legal training sessions: Brand Protection : Choosing and protecting the name of your new business

Start-up legal training sessions

The Betagroup Coworking Brussels and Field Fisher Waterhouse have partnered to bring all the Betagroup community a new series of free training sessions covering practical legal issues for start-ups, with a particular emphasis on the internet and web industry.

The purpose is to provide the participants with a basic knowledge of essential legal issues in corporate, IT, IP and commercial contracts.

Each session conducted in English will address a specific topic and will be presented by lawyers specialised in their field. The presentations will be to the point, non-academic and will handle the subject with pragmatic approach, based on previous experience.

The sessions will be followed by a Q&A and a drink where you will be able to ask your questions and share experiences with speakers and participants.

Which brings us to the subject of our fifth session:

Brand Protection : Carefully choosing and protecting the name of your new business is often vital for a start-up company.

Agenda

• The DO’s and DON’T in brand protection (eg descriptive v. fantasy names),
• The procedure/costs associated with trademark protection;
• The basics of trademark litigation (incl. domain names) : what can you do if someone else is using a trademark similar to yours and what are your risks if someone has a trademark similar to your name?

The presentation will be half an hour long, followed by Q&A and a drink to keep on asking questions to the speaker.

Speaker

Louis-François du Castillon, Of Counsel, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP

Louis-François is a corporate and M&A lawyer passionate about entrepreneurship. He assists companies in all steps of their development since more than 12 years. He has assisted in many projects in their early stage and further development, finding ideas to help the founders to formalize their ideas and securing their projects. He repeatedly has been selected for inclusion in legal directories as Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.

Who is it for?

Anybody thinking about creating their own company.

Brought to you by

Brought to you by

Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP

A full-service European law firm with offices in Brussels, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, London,
Manchester, Munich and Paris. Our Brussels office has 46 lawyers (including
15 partners), who assist a wide range of clients, advising across the full range of legal
issues. Our practice areas include commercial law, contracts and fraud, competition, corporate,
dispute resolution, employment and benefits, energy, EU regulatory, intellectual property
and new technologies, public procurement and administrative law, real estate and tax.

Betagroup ASBL

A community of over 5.000 web entrepreneurs in Belgium, passionate about Internet, Software, Mobile Technologies and Online Media. We aim to connect entrepreneurs, creative thinkers, software developers, digital marketers, web designers, web agencies, advertisers, publishers, VC’s and business angels to innovate together. We want to provide a platform to meet each other, present our projects and foster new collaborations.

Betagroup Coworking Brussels

We are more than a business center or a virtual office: we are a professional network. Our members are freelance professionals, entrepreneurs, & teleworkers of different breeds and trades. We help you connect and collaborate with all, so that you can hire and be hired more easily, and launch your company in a startup friendly environment. Plus, Jean & Ramon, the founders of the Betagroup Coworking, are two of the best connected internet people in Belgium.