You use a name for your company, a logo or a specific design for your products. As time passes by, you realise that others are using the same design or distinctive sign for their products and you wish to challenge that use. Or on the contrary, someone files a complaint against you for allegedly infringing someone else's intellectual property.
Your work cannot be imitated, transferred, copied or disseminated by third parties without your consent. Copyright, patents and trademarks are intellectual property. We can evaluate whether your rights or the rights of the third party involved have been affected. Depending on each assessment, we can help you satisfy the demand through a friendly out-of-court settlement. If the other party refuses to collaborate and chances are favourable, a legal process will be brought.
Gimbrère International Advocaten may also help you protect your rights even if there has been no dispute. For example, by formalising a confidentiality agreement if, with a view to working collaboratively, exclusive information is provided to a future partner; or a licence or operating agreement when, under certain circumstances, third parties are granted the right to use your intellectual property.
Tjaard Gimbrère and Peter Faber have known each other for years.