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Court sides with H&M in the stripe war with Adidas!
For 23 years, Adidas and H&M have waged war over ‘stripes’. Adidas is the ...
Protecting a website by copyright, is that possible in the Netherlands?
Many entrepreneurs in the Netherlands consider it a major source of irritation: ...
How is compensation for copyright infringement determined in the Netherlands?
A dispute about copyright infringement goes beyond establishing that the copyrights ...
Infringement of the trade name law with descriptive designation?
In principle, a trade name that is already in use in social an economic life is ...
Domain name and trade name violation on the internet in the Netherlands
In the present era of the internet as an entrepreneurial platform, we receive ...
Breach of trademark and/or brand: what are the criteria?
How does the court view whether someone else’s trade name or logo appears ...
Defence validity in the event of trademark infringement: how does that work?
A brand or trademark can be registered with the European Union’s Bureau ...
New General Data Protection Regulation (AVG) in EU
Since 14 April 2016 the General Data Protection Regulation (AVG) has been adopted ...
Unlawful trademark infringement via Google Adwords
We previously published a blog about an IP action involving the same issue as ...
Infringement Victoria’s Secret’s trademark rights via Marktplaats.nl
Lingerie company Victoria’s Secret discovered that imitations of their products ...
Reputation damage: rectification after wrongful messages
The success of a business depends (among others) on its reputation. Reputation ...
Damage compensation for claims for trademark infringement
A trademark owner who wants to act against infringement of his trademark rights ...
Registration trademark: in bad faith or rightful?
There is a case of bad faith, for example, if another party officially registers ...
Usage trademark rights after termination of licensing unlawful?
The right of a franchisee to use the trademark and logo(s) of the franchisor is ...
Copycat behaviour: the nightmare of every designer
It is every designer’s nightmare to design a product with a characteristic or ...
Copyright issue: Google refuses to provide BREIN account data
Google was recently sentenced by the Court in Preliminary Relief Proceedings to ...
Use of URL unlawful towards competitor?
Recently the Supreme Court pronounced an important ruling about the issue whether ...
Latching onto the competition with Google Adwords?
Many entrepreneurs are shocked when they find out that their immediate competitor ...
Introduction of new Dutch copyright contract law
This was years in the making: the new copyright contract law that was introduced ...
Images on the internet copyright-protected?
We’ve almost all done it: place an image that you found somewhere on the internet ...
