With a design registration, the appearance of a product or design can be protected for 5 years and (after renewal max 25 years). For a design to be registered, it must be new (i.e. not previously made public) and have an individual character (i.e. sufficiently different from designs already on the market).
read moreJiskefet ‘not amused’ when they heard that publisher Noblesse wanted to publish a ‘Jiskefet encyclopaedia’.
read moreTwo years ago we already wrote about the portrait of our national Formula 1 hero Max Verstappen. In 2016 delivery supermarket Picnic had posted a video on social media showing a lookalike of Max Verstappen.
read moreA brand distinguishes products and services from those of competitors. When you think of a brand, you usually think of a word or logo, or a combination thereof, and sometimes a shape.
read moreEvery company has one or sometimes several trade names, the names under which the company operates. This does not require registration; the right to the trade name arises by using it.
read moreThe end of the Brexit transition period is near! Although the negotiations between the United Kingdom and the EU are still in full swing, several changes in the field of intellectual property have already become clear.k
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