Intellectual Property (IP).

The Central Netherlands District Court ruled on October 21, 2025 (ECLI:NL:RBMNE:2025:5464) that the plaintiff did not have an urgent interest in claims of infringement of her trade name. However, a compelling interest is a requirement in summary proceedings. The claims of the plaintiff (BIGBAGSTORE.NL) against the defendant (BIGBAGSTORE.EU) were therefore dismissed for lack of an urgent interest....

The Rotterdam District Court (ECLI:NL:RBROT:2025:10807) ruled last week in a dispute between two harbor pilots. One pilot accused the other of plagiarism. The plaintiff is providing a mandatory pilot course for Omani pilots in 2022 on behalf of IMCO (International Maritime College Oman). For this purpose, plaintiff has compiled a booklet whose foreword plaintiff wrote himself....

No copyright infringement, yes trademark infringement on scarves from ByLima Despite a previous lawsuit filed by ByLima against counterfeit product providers (see ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2019:10129 and KG ZA 19-132 MW/EB), which ruled that its intellectual property rights had been infringed, this does not seem to have stopped them from continuing. On August 5, 2025...