Webinars for IP professionals

On this webpage you will find all webinars organised by BOIP for IP Professionals. In the past years we have given webinars to update you on the latest developments in the field of trademarks in the Benelux from BOIP's perspective. The aim of the webinars is to provide you with useful tips for your practice. Below you will find the presentations and recordings of the webinars from 2020 - 2023.

This webinar is the first in a row of three webinars in which we focus on the theme 'Use'. Pieter tells you everything about the why, what, when, where and how from acquired distinctiveness. 

This webinar brings you up to speed on the most relevant developments for your practice. At BOIP but also at the Benelux Court of Justice. 

In this ultra-short BOIP coffee break webinar you will gain insight in how BOIP deals with applications for trademarks containing flags or parts thereof. You can then take that into account if you are planning on registering a trademark containing a flag. 

In this short coffee break webinar you will know how BOIP deals with applications for portrait trademarks and what is required for them. You will also learn how BOIP’s policy differs with respect to that of EUIPO.

This webinar focuses on the day-to-day practice of BOIP. Both refusals and cancellation procedures concerning absolute grounds are discussed.

BOIP shares insights and tips & tricks on proceedings between parties. Furthermore, interesting case law and developments on, inter alia, likelihood of confusion, reputation and the 'new' relative grounds in relation to Agent and Agri trade marks are discussed.

The principle of ‘bad faith’ has now been dealt with in a number of different cancellation decisions at BOIP. When is there question of ‘bad faith’ and how does it have to be demonstrated?