by Silvie Wertwijn, Micheline Don & Annelies van Zoest | 7 June 2022 | Intellectual Property
Two 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.
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by Micheline Don, Annelies van Zoest & Silvie Wertwijn | 8 March 2022 | Intellectual Property
A 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.
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by Silvie Wertwijn & Micheline Don | 23 March 2021 | Intellectual Property
Every 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.
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by Silvie Wertwijn & Micheline Don | 23 November 2020 | Intellectual Property
The 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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by Silvie Wertwijn & Micheline Don | 23 June 2020 | Intellectual Property
Under ‘portrait law’ the appearance of a person is protected and one should not simply use a recognizable image of someone else. If this does happen, then the person portrayed may oppose this, provided he has a reasonable interest in this.
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by Silvie Wertwijn & Micheline Don | 17 March 2020 | Intellectual Property
News A Jingle as Trademark? 17 March 2020 – Silvie Wertwijn, Micheline Don Last year we already informed in our Newsletter that since March 2019 registration of a mark no longer requires graphical representation. However, the condition that the mark... read more