12/21/2020 5:18:42 PM HEMA / Lacoste: Good Market Research Can Make the Difference By Maarten Haak A stylised crocodile on children's clothing. Infringement of the Lacoste trademark or not? In the first instance, HEMA went unpunished;...
9/15/2025 3:13:44 PM Will This Elephant Fly Away? By Maarten Haak Impossible Foods cannot block the registration of the device of a flying elephant and the words IMPOSSIBLE BAKERS as an EU mark, so the...
10/15/2024 2:41:50 PM Plant-Based Product Roombeter Must Change Name By Ebba Hoogenraad Upfield (now Flora Food Group) must change the sales name of its product ROOMBETER. The plant-based product may compete with with butter...
4/10/2025 8:54:45 AM Faster access to evidence By Maarten Haak Accessing data held by a third party in the Netherlands has become less difficult. For example, it is now possible where there are strong...
10/15/2024 2:48:12 PM ELON and ELTON: Trademark Conflict or Not? By Maarten Haak Finally another decision that simply assumes a likelihood of confusion. The EUIPO Board of Appeal grants the opposition by the earlier...
3/27/2023 4:06:43 PM Europe - Will An EU trademark Be Registered If It Contains 'F*cking'? By Maarten Haak Should a mark including the particle 'fucking' be registered as a trademark? Or is such sign contrary to accepted principles of morality?...
3/15/2023 1:43:40 PM What If Confusion Concerns Part of the Public? By Maarten Haak The name 247 Lasersnijden (Dutch for 'Laser Cutting') does not infringe on 247TailorSteel's trademark and trade name, so the District...
3/13/2023 3:28:21 PM Is a Director Liable for an IP Infringement by the Company? By Maarten Haak The threshold is quite high under Dutch law: a director's liability is only assumed if the director can be seriously and personally...
12/9/2022 4:04:15 PM SodaStream: CJEU on Exhaustion of Trademark Rights in Refilled and Relabeled Gas Bottles By Maarten Haak Can one refill a refillable SODASTREAM carbonated gas bottle and put one’s own label on it, while the engraved brand SODASTREAM also...