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Laurens van Breda
- Hightech & Electronics
- Trainee Patent Attorney
Laurens van Breda obtained both his MSc in Applied Physics and his MSc in Business Administration from the University of Twente in 2023.
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Camera-based “display visibility” as a technical security measure in remote gaming: T 2030/22 (Board 3.4.03)
In T 2030/22 (Board of Appeal 3.4.03, 27 November 2025) the Board overturned a refusal for lack of inventive step and addressed, in the same context, an examining division’s concerns that a key feature had no technical effect or was insufficiently disclosed. The decision is of practical interest where image-based recognition is used to control […]Continue reading
Patents as tickets to tax benefits
Both in the Netherlands and Belgium, innovation deductions offer significant tax benefits for companies investing in R&D. The Dutch Innovation Box works through a reduced tax rate on profits from innovation, while Belgium uses the innovation deduction to fully exempt a percentage of these profits. It pays for innovative companies to explore these opportunities.Continue reading
Urgency and standing in UPC preliminary injunction proceedings: UPC_CFI_374/2025 (Local Division The Hague)
In its order in UPC_CFI_374/2025, Local Division The Hague, 29 August 2025 (Cilag/Ethicon v RiVOLUTiON), the Court dismissed an application for provisional measures primarily on lack of temporal urgency under Rule 211.4 Rules of Procedure (RoP). The order is a detailed illustration of how the UPC assesses “unreasonable delay” in preliminary injunction (PI) practice and […]Continue reading