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Thomas Dubuisson

Associate
Lawyer

Thomas Dubuisson

Thomas Dubuisson

Associate
Lawyer

T +32 2 743 69 97
F +32 2 743 69 01
CMS DeBacker
Chaussée de La Hulpe 178
1170 Brussels
Belgium
Languages French, English, Dutch, Spanish

Thomas specializes in data protection, intellectual property (IP) and related rights, and ICT. Thomas's experience includes both contentious and non-contentious work. After graduating from Law School in 2010 (Catholic University, Louvain-la-Neuve), Thomas obtained a specialized LL.M. degree in both the Netherlands (LL.M, Maastricht University) and the U.S. (LL.M, The George Washington University), which provide him an in-depth understanding of both the civil and common law traditions.

Thomas was called to the Brussels Bar in May 2015. He started his 3-year apprenticeship at a major U.S. law firm in the IP Litigation practice group where he participated in various stages of litigation. He then followed his apprenticeship at two Franco-Belgian law firms within the Media, ICT and data protection practices.

He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional - Europe (CIPP-E) by the IAPP. The IAPP-certified professionals are recognized around the world as members of an elite group of skilled and dedicated data protection professionals. This certification (CIPP/E) attests high level knowledge in data protection topics.
Thomas is also an occasional guest blogger for various IP blogs and contributes monthly to the “International IP Legal Updates Newsletter” of the American Bar Association.

He is fluent in French and English and is proficient in Spanish and Dutch. Thomas joined CMS in May 2018.

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Relevant experience

  • September 2012 - March 2013 - European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) - Trademark Law Division, Alicante, Spain
  • April - August 2013 - European Patent Office (EPO) - Patent Law Directorate, Munich, Germany
  • November 2013 – November 2014 - World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) - IP Enforcement Division, Geneva, Switzerland
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Education

  • June 2010 - Law Degree - CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN - Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
  • June 2011 - LL.M in Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management - MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY - Maastricht,
  • Netherlands
  • May 2012 - LL.M in Intellectual Property Law - GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL - Washington DC, United States of America
  • June 2018 - Bar admission (Brussels, Belgium)
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Memberships

  • Member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
  • Member of the Belgian National Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (ANBPPI / BNVBIE)
  • Member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
  • Member of the Robotics Law Association (ADDR)
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Publications

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Expertise

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31 Oct 19
Leg­al pre­ci­sion in pri­vacy, data se­cur­ity & data pro­tec­tion
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Brochure TMC - Technology, Media & Communications
14 Feb 20
Bel­gian DPA pub­lishes new de­tailed guidelines on dir­ect mar­ket­ing
The Bel­gian Data Pro­tec­tion Au­thor­ity (DPA) has just pub­lished its new Re­com­mend­a­tion for the pro­cessing of per­son­al data for dir­ect-mar­ket­ing pur­poses. Avail­able in French and Dutch, this 78-page doc­u­ment...
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Law-Now
10/10/2019
EU Cy­ber­se­cur­ity Month: When a simple phish­ing click...
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Newsletter TMC - Technology, Media & Communications
02 Oct 19
Time to up­date your cook­ie con­sent and policy! CJEU says pre-ticked...
On 1 Oc­to­ber, the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) rendered its judg­ment (Case C‑673/17) in a case con­cern­ing cook­ie-based trans­par­ency and con­sent. This rul­ing will sig­ni­fic­antly im­pact the...
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Law-Now
28/09/2018
Septem­ber 2018 News­let­ter
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Newsletter Banking & Finance
31 Jul 19
Us­ing so­cial plug-ins on your web­site? You and the so­cial net­work...
On 29 Ju­ly 2019, the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) con­firmed that a web­site own­er that has em­bed­ded a third-party so­cial plug-in, such as Face­book’s “Like” but­ton, in­to its web­site may...
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Law-Now
31 May 19
First Bel­gian GDPR sanc­tion: DPA fines may­or EUR 2,000
On 28 May 2019, the Bel­gian Data Pro­tec­tion Au­thor­ity (DPA) an­nounced (avail­able in French and Dutch) the im­pos­i­tion of the first Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (GDPR) fine in Bel­gi­um. A may­or was...
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Law-Now
02 Apr 19
EU Ad­voc­ate Gen­er­al gives In­ter­net cook­ie opin­ion that could im­pact...
Ad­voc­ate Gen­er­al Ma­ciej Szpunar, a seni­or leg­al ad­viser to the EUs Court of Justice (CJEU), de­livered an opin­ion (Case C‑673/17) in a case con­cern­ing the ques­tions: should web­sites ac­tu­ally give users...
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Law-Now
17 Jan 19
Bel­gi­um's pri­vacy watch­dog pub­lishes guid­ance on the no­tions of con­trol­ler...
Re­cently, the Bel­gian Data Pro­tec­tion Au­thor­ity (“DPA”) pub­lished guid­ance on con­trol­ler and pro­cessor con­cepts (see ori­gin­al doc­u­ments in French and in Dutch), re­fresh­ing the dis­tinc­tion between...
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Law-Now
10 Sep 18
New Bel­gian data pro­tec­tion law has come in­to force
The Bel­gian Law of 30 Ju­ly 2018 on the pro­tec­tion of nat­ur­al per­sons with re­gard to the pro­cessing of per­son­al data (“Law of 30 Ju­ly 2018”) entered in­to force on 5 Septem­ber 2018. This ex­tens­ive piece...
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