Region: Netherlands

The Benelux Office for Intellectual Property’s new director general discusses the organisation's new strategic plan, aligning priorities with the EUIPO, and exchanging best practices on IP awareness, ADR and AI.

22 August 2024

In this latest update, we look at the USPTO planning to host an AI and NIL roundtable, the Peruvian IP office ordering the blocking of 23 pirate sites, and much more.

03 July 2024

Featured in The Trademark Prosecution Review 2025

Trademark and design filings in the Benelux remained strong throughout the pandemic years, making it more crucial than ever to have a robust understanding of the unified trademark law and how to enforce rights.

27 October 2023

This is the first case in the Netherlands in which the claimant relied on the recent CJEU decision in Louboutin v Amazon. 

19 September 2023

The Supreme Court has confirmed that the burden of proving the exhaustion of trademark rights was not reversed only because the trademark owner made use of an exclusive distribution system.

16 February 2023

In an exclusive guest post, the deputy director general of the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property, Hugues Derème, reveals some of the upcoming initiatives the office has planned.

01 December 2022

Featured in World Trademark Review Yearbook 2022/2023

The Benelux Convention on Intellectual Property does not provide for protection of unregistered trademarks, the only exception being the protection of well-known marks as prescribed by the Paris Convention. When no registration exists, no trademark rights can be invoked. Timely registration is therefore of the essence.

21 October 2022

Featured in WTR Special Report Q3 2022: Brand protection 2027: Why trademark practitioners must prepare for the future now

Pieter van den Bulck – until recently the global director of intellectual property at AB InBev  – shares the innovations that he sees as key for corporate trademark departments in the years ahead

27 September 2022

Following the Court of Appeal’s decision, the Jiskefet Encyclopedie - a book about a famous TV show that was written and published without the consent of the show’s producers - can again be sold in bookshops without a sticker or insert.

26 September 2022

Featured in Physical marketplace counterfeit hotspots

In a new edition from our long-running series on physical marketplaces that reportedly engage in the trade of counterfeit goods, we head to the Benelux area.

05 September 2022