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Brand and product protection

Various rules and laws are in place to enable you to protect your brand and product, including copyright legislation, trademark legislation, and designs and models legislation. There are various ways to lay claim to your ideas, including applying for a patent or filing an idea with the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP).

Below is an overview of the rules and regulations, subsidies and taxes in relation to the topic “Brand and product protection”.

  1. Applying for a patent

    When you have made an invention, you can apply to NL Patent Office (NL Octrooicentrum) for a patent. Your invention ...

  2. Copyright

    The Copyright Act (Auteurswet) automatically protects the copyright of works of literature, science or art from ...

  3. Designs and models law

    You can register the model or design of your product with the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP). ...

  4. Domain name, registering

    If you want to start a website, you must first choose a domain name (Internet address). You cannot choose a domain ...

  5. General terms and conditions, drawing up

    In the general terms and conditions, you state the rules that you want to apply in the contract with the buyer ...

  6. Private deeds, registration of

    In order to prove that you possessed specific knowledge by a given date, you can have drawings, prototypes or photos ...

  7. Recording an idea

    You can record an idea at an early stage in your innovation process by submitting an i-DEPOT to the Benelux Office ...

  8. Trademark law

    You can protect the trademark of your product, service or business. This could be your company logo or the name ...

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