Mission

Our mission is to ensure that all trademarks, designs and drawings in the Benelux are registered and that everybody knows where, why and how to protect his or her intellectual property.

About us

The Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) is the official institution in the Benelux region responsible for the registration of trademarks and designs. The BOIP is part of the Benelux Organisation for Intellectual Property, an international organisation that is monitored by its Management Board. This Board is manned by representatives from all three Benelux countries.

The Organisation has been assigned the following tasks and duties:

a. to implement the treaty and the implementing regulations;
b. to promote the protection of trademarks and drawings/designs in the Benelux countries;
c. to carry out its related legal tasks in such areas as intellectual property, as directed by the Management Board;
d. continual evaluation and, if necessary, amendment of the Benelux laws on trademarks and drawings/designs, in the light of international, Community and other developments.