From practise
A list with projects is listed below:
Copyright is owned by the author of a work. But what happens if you have assigned somebody to create the work for you, e. g. a designer or an advertising agency. Do you have the copyright or the......
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Outside Yellow pages
Inside Yellow pages (both registerd Benelux trademarks)
Gouden Gids, the Dutch version of Yellow pages, has two trademark registrations for......
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Trademarks in virtual worlds , on You Tube, Games, Facebook etc.
Trademarks are more and more used in a digital environment, authorized and unauthorized. Should you take action as a trademark......
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Did you invent something that is a technical solution for an existing problem? May be you can acquire patent rights!
We can help you in the first steps. But please be warned! Nobody can......
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Could you copy a product in whatever country you please? Lego has has many law suites in various countries against the use of their LEGO brick. The decisions of the various courts were not......
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A specific appearance of a product can be protected as design. In principle we advise to start your design protection with a registered European design. It is however also possible to file a design......
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May you use a well known surname or a portrait of a well known person in your own brand or in an advertisement?
This question cannot be answered with a simple yes or no. Trademark law as well......
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Trademarks and branding are important.
There are several marketingbooks written in which it is alleged that a ‘brand’ is taking over the function of a religion, coming from the......
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Some trademarks are depicted every time in a slightly other way, but some components always remain recognizable. An example thereof is the trademark GOOGLE. ......
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FUCKING HELL was filed as a Community Trademark and refused. Later is was accepted for registration.
Before 1996 any trademark application for registration was registered in the Benelux. The......
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Can you act against look-a-likes?
Sometimes you can and sometimes you cannot. We have to examine it on a case by case basis.
Suppose you introduced a new line of china on the market and......
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Dick Bruna, the creative spirit behind Nijntje objected against the depicted image. He based his objectioon on copyright law and trademark law.
Copyright law is created automatically on each work......
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A trademark as symbol of the contradiction between rich and poor.
Trademarks invoke imagination. Trademarks are symbols. Amongst marketeers the impression lives that trademarks......
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You can hire us when you have a conflict in the field of trademark- and design law, but also with respect to conflicts in the field of copyright, portrait rights, domain names and other......
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Copyright is acquired on any work which is original and bears the stamp of the author. This is a legal qualification, which qualification is only given in court proceedings. Of course court......
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A design is a product that is novel and has distinctive character. A design is protected when registered in an official design register. Also a drawing, a pattern of part of a product can be......
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A trademark is any sign which is able to distinguish the goods and services of a company, under the condition that is can be presented in a graphical way.
Thus a trademark is a word, a......
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