Because of its child friendly character Dick Bruna’s Miffy is often a humorous target. Bruna has more often than not successfully opposed unacceptable parodies on Miffy. For example in 2002 a campaign against rude behavior was revoked for using the same style as Miffy. Since that time, however, the so-called parody-exception has been added to the Copyright Act.
of her beer bottles. Even those who may not be a fan of beer, however, would quicky note that the bottle is composed of a number of elements that can all be found on the Heineken bottle.
Happy Point rents and sells inflatable dolls. When an almost identical doll is spotted Happy Point starts a procedure. The opposing party claims that the dolls are not protected by copyrights because their look is composed of general physical traits, such as grey hairs.
André Rieu is one of the most successful classical musicians in the Netherlands. For that reason he has registered both his name and his portrait as a trademark. Of course, there are always those who wish to prey on success. In the fall of 2009 a collector’s magazine appeared named “André Rieu, from choir boy to violin idol”.
Since 1996 Italian Giampietro Torresan has produced CANNABIS beer. In 2003 the trademark obtained European protection. German beer manufacturer THE CANNABIS CLUB SUD started a cancellation procedure as a response. The reason being that CANNABIS would be descriptive for beer.
Earlier this year the European Court gave a decision on the admissibility of using someone else’s trademark as an adword. An adword is a search word that enables users of Google to find sponsored links to websites. These sponsored links may be seen on the right hand side of Google. Sometimes trademarks are used as adwords by the competition in order to lure more people to their website
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Among others in this issue:
• EUIPO vs Mora TV: weigering geluidsmerk
• Jägermeister vs Alte Heiler: stop Russische copycat
• Stichting Nederlandse Top 40: gericht op Benelux?
• Tijdschrift HART vs Hermitage: soortgelijkheid
• Monique Granneman: nieuwe partner Abcor
