Annelies De Clercq

From Idea to Intellectual Property (IP) is what De Clercq & Partners stands for. We help you navigate through the complex and dynamic world of IP, securing optimum protection for your achievements by patents, trademarks, designs and domain names.

Together with you, our superb team of over twenty qualified European and Belgian Patent Attorneys and European Patent Litigators will formulate and implement clear and effective IP strategies to nurture your innovations, bolster the future of your business, and avoid infringing IP rights of others. Invention analyses, patentability opinions, drafting and prosecution of patent applications to grant in Europe and across the globe, post-grant oppositions and appeals, patent landscaping, due diligence and freedom-to-operate analyses, infringement and validity analyses are but some of the tasks you can entrust to us.

Our patent experts come from a variety of technical fields ranging from biotech, pharma and chemistry to medical devices, engineering, software and AI, come with many years of experience serving diverse clients from academic institutions and start-ups to large multinationals, and are united in their mission to help you and your business prosper! They are complemented by a growing team of trademark and design attorneys and legal counsels to cover all areas of IP which matter to you.

We look forward to meeting you!