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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.
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Intellectual Property & Innovation
Food labeling: ban on meat names for vegetarian products?
4 December 2024 -
Packaging and labeling regulations from the EU aim to protect consumers from being misled. Does this include a ban on offering or advertising vegetarian...
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IT & Privacy
Long-term cooperation contracts: the value of a good balance sheet determination
4 December 2024 -
Scooperation contracts are often entered into for longer periods of time (>5 years). Voften a defined degree of exclusivity is agreed uponbut that can also...
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Tax
Legal and tax concerns of transferring IP rights within a group
4 December 2024 -
In this blog, we discuss the positioning of Intellectual Property Rights ("IP rights"), such as copyrights, patent rights and trademark rights, within the...
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Intellectual Property & Innovation
Does world champion Max Verstappen win off track in trademark dispute?
4 December 2024 -
Max Verstappen recently took legal action (through his company) against the trademark registration of "SUPERMAX," arguing that there is a likelihood of...
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Tax
Key highlights from the Tax Plan 2024
8 November 2024 -
On Tuesday, September 19, 2023 (Budget Day), the outgoing Dutch Minister of Finance revealed the Tax Plan 2024 in which several tax measures were announced....
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Labour & Pensions
Cross-border employment: The competent court in case of cross-border employment
8 November 2024 -
Increasingly, employees live and work remotely, in addition to the regular cross-border worker who lives just across the border in Germany and/or Belgium. The...
