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Hidde Reitsma

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 ...

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Protecting a website by copyright, is that possible in the Netherlands?

Many entrepreneurs in the Netherlands consider it a major source of irritation: ...

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How is compensation for copyright infringement determined in the Netherlands?

A dispute about copyright infringement goes beyond establishing that the copyrights ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Breach of trademark and/or brand: what are the criteria?

How does the court view whether someone else’s trade name or logo appears ...

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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 ...

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New General Data Protection Regulation (AVG) in EU

Since 14 April 2016 the General Data Protection Regulation (AVG) has been adopted ...

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Unlawful trademark infringement via Google Adwords

We previously published a blog about an IP action involving the same issue as ...

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Hidde Reitsma

Infringement Victoria’s Secret’s trademark rights via Marktplaats.nl

Lingerie company Victoria’s Secret discovered that imitations of their products ...

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Thomas van Vugt

Reputation damage: rectification after wrongful messages

The success of a business depends (among others) on its reputation. Reputation ...

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Hidde Reitsma

Damage compensation for claims for trademark infringement

A trademark owner who wants to act against infringement of his trademark rights ...

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Registration trademark: in bad faith or rightful?

There is a case of bad faith, for example, if another party officially registers ...

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Hidde Reitsma

Usage trademark rights after termination of licensing unlawful?

The right of a franchisee to use the trademark and logo(s) of the franchisor is ...

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Hidde Reitsma

Copycat behaviour: the nightmare of every designer

It is every designer’s nightmare to design a product with a characteristic or ...

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Thomas van Vugt

Copyright issue: Google refuses to provide BREIN account data

Google was recently sentenced by the Court in Preliminary Relief Proceedings to ...

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Hidde Reitsma

Use of URL unlawful towards competitor?

Recently the Supreme Court pronounced an important ruling about the issue whether ...

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Latching onto the competition with Google Adwords?

Many entrepreneurs are shocked when they find out that their immediate competitor ...

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Introduction of new Dutch copyright contract law

This was years in the making: the new copyright contract law that was introduced ...

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Images on the internet copyright-protected?

We’ve almost all done it: place an image that you found somewhere on the internet ...

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