--- title: "Solutions | Pitch, European law firm for IP, IT & data" description: "Legal help for every stage of your growth: from creating and protecting to selling and defending." url: https://pitch.law/solutions --- # Solutions Legal help for every stage of your growth: from creating and protecting to selling and defending. - [All](https://pitch.law/solutions) - [Intellectual Property](https://pitch.law/solution-categories/intellectual-property) - [Information Technology](https://pitch.law/solution-categories/information-technology) - [Privacy & Data Protection](https://pitch.law/solution-categories/privacy) - [Commercial](https://pitch.law/solution-categories/commercial) - [Corporate and M\&A](https://pitch.law/solution-categories/corporate-m-a) - [Tax](https://pitch.law/solution-categories/tax) ## Intellectual Property - ### [Trademark Clearance](https://pitch.law/solutions/trademark-clearance) [Can you use the name, and can you register it? A clearance search answers both, with a signed opinion that rates each risk and tells you what to do. Usually within one working day, at a fixed fee.](https://pitch.law/solutions/trademark-clearance) - ### [Trademark Watch & Opposition](https://pitch.law/solutions/trademark-watch-opposition-monitoring) [We watch the registers for new marks that conflict with yours, tell you which ones matter, and oppose within the deadline when you instruct us to.](https://pitch.law/solutions/trademark-watch-opposition-monitoring) - ### [Brand Monitoring & Online Enforcement](https://pitch.law/solutions/effective-online-brand-protection) [Counterfeits, lookalike shops, fake accounts, infringing listings on marketplaces and app stores. We find them, and we usually get them taken down within one working day.](https://pitch.law/solutions/effective-online-brand-protection) - ### [Brand Policy Compliance](https://pitch.law/solutions/online-brand-compliance) [We help brand owners get distributors, resellers and licensees to follow the brand rules, through the contract, monitoring and a graduated response.](https://pitch.law/solutions/online-brand-compliance) - ### [Domain Name Disputes](https://pitch.law/solutions/domain-name-litigation) [We recover or cancel domain names registered in bad faith, through the UDRP, the URS, the .eu procedure, country-code procedures such as .be, or the courts, and defend clients accused of the same.](https://pitch.law/solutions/domain-name-litigation) - ### [IP Portfolio Management](https://pitch.law/solutions/ip-portfolio-intelligence) [We keep your trademarks, designs, domain names and patents in one overview, follow every deadline and prepare each renewal decision with a cost estimate.](https://pitch.law/solutions/ip-portfolio-intelligence) - ### [Trademark Registration](https://pitch.law/solutions/trademark-registration) [We choose the right route and scope for your mark, file it with the EUIPO, the BOIP or through the Madrid System, and keep it in order afterwards.](https://pitch.law/solutions/trademark-registration) - ### [360° Patent Strategy](https://pitch.law/solutions/patent-strategy) [Decide what to protect, where and when, and plan the cost, so that your patents serve the business and not the other way round.](https://pitch.law/solutions/patent-strategy) - ### [Patent Research](https://pitch.law/solutions/patent-research) [Prior art, patentability and freedom-to-operate answers from attorneys, built on structured patent data and checked citations.](https://pitch.law/solutions/patent-research) - ### [New gTLDs for Brands](https://pitch.law/solutions/new-gtlds) [Advice for brand owners on ICANN's new gTLD programme, from the decision to apply through objections and contention to running a registry.](https://pitch.law/solutions/new-gtlds) ## Information Technology - ### [AI Act Compliance](https://pitch.law/solutions/ai-act-compliance) [We help you find out which of your AI systems fall under the EU AI Act, in what role, and what you must have in place and by when.](https://pitch.law/solutions/ai-act-compliance) - ### [Data and Database Rights Protection](https://pitch.law/solutions/data-and-database-rights-protection) [How to protect the data and databases you build, through database rights, trade secrets, copyright and the contracts that hold them together.](https://pitch.law/solutions/data-and-database-rights-protection) ## Privacy & Data Protection - ### [Data Processing Agreements](https://pitch.law/solutions/data-processing-agreements) [Article 28 GDPR agreements drafted, reviewed and negotiated for controllers and processors, including sub-processors and international transfers.](https://pitch.law/solutions/data-processing-agreements) - ### [Data Protection Officer as a Service](https://pitch.law/solutions/dpo-as-a-service) [An external Data Protection Officer who advises, monitors and documents your GDPR compliance, with a register, calendar and portal behind the advice.](https://pitch.law/solutions/dpo-as-a-service) - ### [Data Breach Response](https://pitch.law/solutions/data-breach-response-enforcement) [Help from the first hours of a personal data breach: assessment, notification to the authority and individuals, documentation, and action against the source.](https://pitch.law/solutions/data-breach-response-enforcement) ## Commercial - ### [Trademark Licensing](https://pitch.law/solutions/trademark-licensing) [Licence your brand to a partner, franchisee or distributor and keep control of quality, territory and the mark itself.](https://pitch.law/solutions/trademark-licensing) - ### [Patent and Technology Licensing](https://pitch.law/solutions/patent-technology-licensing) [Licence or acquire patents, know-how and software on terms that protect your edge, your income and your competition-law position.](https://pitch.law/solutions/patent-technology-licensing) - ### [Data Licensing and Data Sharing](https://pitch.law/solutions/data-licensing-sharing) [Share or license data without giving away more than you meant to. Clear scope, settled ownership of what is derived from it, and the GDPR layer built in.](https://pitch.law/solutions/data-licensing-sharing) - ### [Commercial Contracts & Transactions](https://pitch.law/solutions/commercial-contracts-transactions) [Supply, distribution, services, SaaS and procurement contracts, and the deals around them, drafted and reviewed with the IP, data and tax angles in view.](https://pitch.law/solutions/commercial-contracts-transactions) ## Corporate and M\&A - ### [Incorporate a Company in Belgium](https://pitch.law/solutions/incorporation) [Setting up a Belgian company means choosing the right form, a sound financial plan, articles and a shareholders' agreement, and making sure the company owns the IP behind the business. We prepare everything and work with your notary.](https://pitch.law/solutions/incorporation) - ### [M\&A and Due Diligence](https://pitch.law/solutions/m-a-due-diligence) [A deal needs a structure, a hard look at what is being transferred, and a contract that puts each risk with the right party. We run the legal side from preparation to closing.](https://pitch.law/solutions/m-a-due-diligence) - ### [Management Agreement](https://pitch.law/solutions/management-agreement) [A director or manager who works through a management company or as a self-employed person needs an agreement that holds up as a mandate and not as employment. We draft it around the law that applies, the company's IP and a clean exit.](https://pitch.law/solutions/management-agreement) - ### [Shareholders' Agreement](https://pitch.law/solutions/shareholders-agreement) [A shareholders' agreement sets out how the owners run the company, who may sell to whom and what happens when they disagree. We draft it with the articles of association, and make sure the IP stays in the company.](https://pitch.law/solutions/shareholders-agreement) - ### [Valuation](https://pitch.law/solutions/valuation) [A price for a company or its IP is only as good as the rights behind it. We supply the legal, IP and tax input that makes a valuation stand, whether it serves a funding round, a contribution in kind, a transfer or an exit.](https://pitch.law/solutions/valuation) - ### [Funding](https://pitch.law/solutions/funding) [Before investors put money in, they want to see clean IP, clean records and clean contracts. We get you ready for the round, then do the legal work through to closing.](https://pitch.law/solutions/funding) ## Tax - ### [R\&D Grants and Subsidies](https://pitch.law/solutions/r-d-funding) [Grants can fund a real share of an R\&D project, but only a well-built application gets there. We match the project to EU programmes such as Horizon Europe, or to national and regional schemes, and manage the file.](https://pitch.law/solutions/r-d-funding) - ### [Belgian Innovation Income Deduction](https://pitch.law/solutions/innovation-income-deduction) [Belgian companies can deduct 85% of net income from qualifying IP, which brings the effective rate on that income down to about 3.75%. We establish whether you qualify and build the file.](https://pitch.law/solutions/innovation-income-deduction) - ### [Belgian Copyright Tax Regime](https://pitch.law/solutions/copyright-tax-regime) [In Belgium, copyright fees can be taxed as movable income at 15%. Since the 2023 reform the conditions are strict: we test them and document the deal.](https://pitch.law/solutions/copyright-tax-regime) - ### [Belgian Withholding Tax Exemption for R\&D Staff](https://pitch.law/solutions/exemption-from-the-professional-withholding-tax-for-knowledge-staff) [In Belgium, employers running qualifying R\&D can keep up to 80% of the professional withholding tax on their researchers' pay. We handle the registration, the file and the follow-up.](https://pitch.law/solutions/exemption-from-the-professional-withholding-tax-for-knowledge-staff) ## Let’s talk Tell us what you’re working on. We’ll get the right person on it and reply within one business day. The first chat is free. [Schedule a meeting](https://pitch.law/schedule)