{"id":365,"date":"2017-09-14T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arubalaw.com\/main\/?p=365"},"modified":"2017-09-14T11:24:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:24:26","slug":"night-watch-painting-cant-be-registered-as-a-trademark-due-to-lack-of-distinctiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arubalaw.com\/main\/night-watch-painting-cant-be-registered-as-a-trademark-due-to-lack-of-distinctiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Night watch painting can’t be registered as a trademark due to lack of distinctiveness!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Night watch painting can’t be registered as a trademark due to lack of distinctiveness! This was an interesting court ruling by the Court of Appeal of The Hague d.d. 29th of August 2017.<\/p>\n

#Denachtwacht #merk #painting #RembrandtvanRijn #notadistinguishingenough #lacksinherentdistinctivecharacter<\/p>\n

A trademark is a brand name. A trademark or service mark includes any word, name, symbol, device, or any combination, used or intended to be used to identify and distinguish the goods\/services of one seller or provider from those of others, and to indicate the source of the goods\/services. If you don’t register your trade mark, then someone else can. Securing a registered trademark protects your brand and provides you with the tools to prevent someone using similar signs and riding off the back of your business.<\/p>\n

Visit our Facebook page https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arubalaw\/\u00a0<\/a>and let us assist you with your new trademark.\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Click on the link below for a recent ruling of Court of Appeal of The Hague:
\nhttps:\/\/uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl\/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2017:2446&showbutton=true<\/a><\/p>\n

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Night watch painting can’t be registered as a trademark due to lack of distinctiveness! This was an interesting court ruling by the Court of Appeal of The Hague d.d. 29th of August 2017. #Denachtwacht #merk #painting #RembrandtvanRijn #notadistinguishingenough #lacksinherentdistinctivecharacter A trademark is a brand name. A trademark or service mark includes any word, name, symbol, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,25,24,21,15,23,16,20,17,18,22],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arubalaw","tag-arubatrademark","tag-denachtwach","tag-ip","tag-lacksinherentdistinctivecharacter","tag-merk","tag-notadistinguishingenough","tag-painting","tag-rembrandtvanrijn","tag-sjiemfatco","tag-trademark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arubalaw.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arubalaw.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arubalaw.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arubalaw.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arubalaw.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.arubalaw.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/www.arubalaw.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arubalaw.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arubalaw.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arubalaw.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}