Representative matters
- Representing a multinational shoe manufacturer in copyright litigation about the copying of its shoes.
- Representing a world-renowned clothing brand in trademark litigation before the EU General Court.
- Representing a major manufacturer of consumer products in trademark litigation up to the Dutch Supreme Court
- Rituals International Trademarks v. The Body Shop. Obtaining a a pan-European injunction against The Body Shop for infringement of the RITUALS trademark, which was confirmed in appeal. (press)
- Obtaining various injunctions on behalf of Rituals against third parties abusing the RITUALS trademark, resulting in EU wide settlements.
- Acting on behalf of the John Lennon Estate (Yoko Ono) in various cross border proceedings against the infringers of the John Lennon brand. Obtained, among others, a favourable judgment in 2018 against a Polish company marketing JOHN LEMON soda. (press)
- Samsung v. Michael Gleissner. Acting on behalf of Samsung against the notorious multi trademark filer Michael Gleissner, who blocked successful registration of one of Samsung’s EUTMs, due to a devious filing strategy. On 18 September 2019 a positive judgment was obtained in which the court annulled the Gleissners trademark and awarded damages to Samsung. (Appeal is pending) (press)
- Consejo Regulador del Tequila v. Heineken. successful litigation against the use of the denomination of origin Tequila on Desperados’ beer. The litigation ended in a favourable settlement. (press)
- G-Star RAW litigation. Joris heads the team that enforces the rights in G-Star’s famous trademarks across Europe. The team obtained various cross border injunctions and reached settlements with a large number of companies. On 11th of June 2019 the Court of Appeal of The Hague ruled in favour of G-Star in proceedings, bypassing an earlier decision of the Düsseldorf Court of Appeal.
- BREIN v. Ziggo and other ISP’s – website blocking (The Pirate Bay). Representing the Hollywood film studio’s and the music, games and e-books industries in various court cases involving the blocking of torrent websites such as The Pirate Bay. The European Court of Justice ruled in favour of BREIN and declared that P2P websites like The Pirate Bay are making available to the public (C-610/15). In subsequent court proceedings BREIN obtained injunctions forcing all big Dutch ISP’s to block The Pirate Bay. (press)
- Representing Philips in matters relating to copying of household products, inter alia obtaining cross border injunctions.
- Acting on behalf of the Jimi Hendrix Estate (Experience Hendrix LLC) against various abuses of the Jimi Hendrix trademark and personality rights across the EU. The team inter alia represents the Estate in EU wide cross border litigation against manufacturers of “JIMI HENDRIX” branded products which are offered under license of Jimi Hendrix’s brother, who is not authorized to sell such products.
- Representing the owner of a world renowned Vodka brand in a trademark dispute, winning back the rights to the reputed trademark throughout the EU.
- Obtaining injunctions against infringers on various famous Italian and French fashion designer trademarks and copyrights.
- Successful litigation on behalf of Rabobank re trademarks and tradejnames.
- EU wide litigation on behalf of a Swiss Multinational in the appeal phase relating to the trademarks of vegetarian burgers.
- Assisting a Multi national tobacco brand in various trademark and copyright infringement cases.
- Representing an American foods multinational in court in advertising claims.
- Representing Hunter Douglas in a damage claim filed by Zimmer & Rohde for alleged unjustified enforcement of a trademark injunction in the Netherlands.
- Successfully representing a Dutch television Network against a claim for trademark infringement by an American sports company.
- REACT v. Hosting ISP’s. Obtained various pan EU injunction orders on behalf of various luxury brands in relation to counterfeit websites.
- AkzoNobel v. network of software infringers. Obtained EU wide injunctions and seizures against multiple resellers infringing on AkzoNobel paint mixing software, eliminating a network of infringing resellers of Sikkens paint.
- De Persgroep v. Innoweb. Obtaining a favourable judgment awarding damages to a major Dutch publisher De Persgroep in litigation against Innoweb (De Telegraaf) before the European Court of Justice. (press)
- Euronext v. Binck Bank and TOM. Obtained a favourable judgment re damages after obtaining an injunction against Binckbank and TOM on behalf of European Exchange Euronext to cease infringing on the AEX trademarks, cease infringing the rights in the stock options database, cease the breach of contractual obligations and stop misleading “best price” advertisement. Successful follow up proceedings about the damages.
- Successfully representing SABAM in legal proceedings against companies offering background music. A favourable judgment was recently obtained.
