HomepageBrand and product protection
On this page you find rules and regulations in relation to 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).
- Copyright
The Dutch Copyright Act (Auteurswet) automatically protects the copyright of works of literature, science or art ...
- Designs and models law
The designs and models law makes arrangements for the protection of designs and models of products in the Benelux. ...
- General terms and conditions
In the general terms and conditions, you state the rules that you want to apply in the contract with the buyer of ...
- Patents
When you have made an invention, you can apply to NL Patent Office (NL Octrooicentrum) for a patent. Your invention ...
- Portrait right
If you film or photograph people, you will be the owner of the copyright but not the portrait right. The portrait ...
- Recording an idea, concept or prototype (i-DEPOT)
You can record an idea at an early stage in your innovation process by submitting an i-DEPOT to the Benelux Office ...
- Registering a domain name
If you want to start a website in the Netherlands, you must first choose a domain name (Internet address). You ...
- Registration of private deeds
In order to prove that you possessed specific knowledge by a given date, you can have drawings, prototypes or ...
- Trademark law
You can protect the trademark of your product, service or business. This could be your company logo or the name ...
