Intellectual Property
Every company has to deal with intellectual property rights, such as trademark law, copyright, patent law, design law, trade name law, advertising law, unfair commercial practices, breeders’ rights and know-how/trade secrets. We assist our clients in all aspects of this, such as planned product launches, marketing and advertising campaigns, protecting brands and products, entering into or terminating licensing agreements and combating counterfeiting. In addition to advising and drawing up contracts, we also assist our clients in conducting proceedings on all these issues. For international matters or aspects, we have a worldwide network of specialized lawyers.
Micheline Don
partner/lawyer
News
A lookalike is no violation of portrait right
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.
A Jingle as Trademark?
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 shall be...
Pharmacists Exemption in Dutch Patent Act
On 1 February 2019, the so-called pharmacist exemption in the Dutch Patent Act 1995 (DPA) has become effective.
Amended Benelux Trademark Rules
Based on the new European Trademark Directive and further harmonization of trademark law at EU level, the new Benelux Convention on Intellectual Property has been amended and entered into force on 1 March 2019. The main changes read as follows.
Announcement
News Announcement Parker Advocaten 28 december 2018There’s so much we share. So why not share the same name? From 1 January 2019, De Grave De Mönnink Spliet Advocaten is joined by Scope Advocaten, continuing under the name Parker Advocaten. Taking a different...