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Intellectual property: trade marks, copyrights and design rights

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Pels Rijcken

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The team at Pels Rijcken‘s workload includes advising public clients on copyright and privacy aspects of digital innovation initiatives. The group also has a noteworthy specialism acting for its sizeable client portfolio on complex IP litigation before the Dutch Supreme Court as well as the appeals courts; this is the area of expertise of Sikke Kingma who has ’landmark IP matters on his record’. Jordi Bierens has notable capabilities litigating and advising in relation to trade marks, copyright, domain names and advertisements.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Sikke Kingma is an exceptional IP lawyer with a strong team. We have worked with them for cassation cases quite often and are always happy with their cooperation.’

  • ‘Sikke Kingma is smart, knowledgeable, quick on his feet and funny. Highly recommended.’

  • ‘Excellent specialised lawyers who are easily accessible.’

  • ‘Jordi Bierens is an excellent soft IP and media lawyer. Very pleasant to work with.’

  • ‘The team at Pels have a very high-quality standard and always deliver within agreed timelines which makes them very effective to work with.'

  • 'Their knowledge on Dutch Supreme Court proceedings is simply required when clients get to the stage of proceedings that we have.’

  • ‘Sikke Kingma is a very experienced Dutch Supreme Court lawyer with some landmark IP matters on his record. He is cooperative, responsive and never loses sight of the practical implications of a matter for a client.'

Key clients

  • Menzis
  • Sena
  • SONT
  • State of the Netherlands
  • CBR

Work highlights

  • Representing a major retailer from The Netherlands and Belgium in extensive Supreme Court proceedings concerning European and American copyright law.
  • Represented the State of the Netherlands in lawsuits concerning the implementation of the European Copyright Directive.
  • Representing health insurer Menzis in proceedings before the Supreme Court against pharmaceutical multinational AstraZeneca over the financial consequences of the latter invoking a later nullified patent.

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Practice head

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Sikke Kingma

Other key lawyers

Jordi Bierens, Maartje Möhring, Gertjan Harryvan