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Intellectual Property & Innovation
Key differences between trade mark and trade name protection
28 April 2025 -
Trade marks and trade names offer businesses protection against unauthorized use of identical or similar signs to such marks and names, but they are subject to...
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IT & Privacy
Limiting vendor lock-in: how do you maintain freedom and flexibility in a digital world?
11 April 2025 -
In an increasingly digital world, we rely on numerous third-party vendors for their software, cloud solutions and other IT services. This collaboration often...
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Intellectual Property & Innovation
Intellectual Property in the Netherlands and the EU: Development, Ownership and Exploitation
7 April 2025 -
Technological advancement and globalization have dramatically changed the world economy. These developments continue to have a material impact on value chains,...
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Banking & Finance
Personal Security under Dutch Law: Suretyship & Guarantees
3 April 2025 -
In our last month’s blog we introduced the various types of security interests under Dutch law. Under Dutch law, obligations (claims) can be secured by...
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Resilient organisation
Platforms of dominant companies and mandatory interoperability: Important ruling by the CJEU on Android Auto
31 March 2025 -
On 25 February 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued an important preliminary ruling in the case between Alphabet (Google) and the...
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Intellectual Property & Innovation
The ECOVER decision; a win for eco friendly trademarks?
18 March 2025 -
The recent court decision in the ECOVER v. ECOVIE case may have significant implications for eco-friendly branding.
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Intellectual Property & Innovation
Product packaging: where design and trade mark law meet
3 March 2025 -
On 12 February 2025, the General Court of the European Union issued a significant ruling in a product packaging case, relevant for both design law and trade...
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Banking & Finance
Security interests under Dutch law
27 February 2025 -
Our team of Banking & Finance specialists have put together a short overview of the various types of security interest under Dutch law. Under Dutch law,...
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Intellectual Property & Innovation
Design and Copyright Protection in the EU
11 February 2025 -
Copyright and design protection are increasingly important topics in the European Union (EU). Recent legislative initiatives and court rulings across various...
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Labour & Pensions
Secondment as an alternative to self-employment: what do you need to know?
22 January 2025 -
Much has been written about the risk of false self-employment and ways to mitigate it. We too regularly publish and advise on this topic. But the question that...
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Intellectual Property & Innovation
No trademark registration for ‘Glashütte Original’ in virtual watches
15 December 2024 -
The town of Glashütte is known for producing high-quality watches. Therefore, it fails to register ‘Glashütte Original’ as a trademark for virtual goods.
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Intellectual Property & Innovation
Top 40 charts protected by database?
4 December 2024 -
Are the Top 40 charts a database within the meaning of the Databases Act? Legal proceedings on databases are not numerous, but in this case the Dutch Top 40...
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Intellectual Property & Innovation
Works of applied art from US also protected by EU copyright!
4 December 2024 -
Designs created in the U.S. are copyrighted here in the EU under the European harmonized rules of copyright.
