Intellectual Property: trade marks, copyrights and design rights - Leading Partners
Maarten is a partner in our Intellectual Property practice group in the Netherlands and heads the Benelux Brands & Advertising and Copyright & Media team.
Clients describe Maarten as an attentive and trusted advisor who gives commercial and practical advice. He has more than 15 years of experience in intellectual property law, and specialises in trademark- and design law, intermediary liability and e-commerce, copyright law, media- and advertising law and (promotional) games of chance.
Maarten is an experienced litigator, regularly representing clients in all matters and instances, from the Dutch national courts up until the Benelux Court of Justice and the European Court of Justice. Furthermore, his expertise includes a wide array of IP contracts, such as license agreements, R&D agreements and confidentiality agreements.
Intellectual Property: trade marks, copyrights and design rights - Leading Partners
Intellectual Property: Trademarks Lawyer of the year
Silver individuals 2025
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"Taylor Wessing has been steadily building out its local offering, which provides a 360-degree service through its one-stop shop set-up, with judicious support from its international network as and when needed. The side’s management of thousands of marks is effortless – not least thanks to the vigilant quality control of Maarten Rijks. The Benelux trademark and design practice head is a tough adversary with an uncanny ability to predict the likelihood of success before districts courts, courts of appeal and the Supreme Court."
Silver individuals 2021
Leading individual (Silver): Instrumental to the firm’s growth is seasoned trademark practitioner Maarten Rijks, who “always responds quickly and provides insightful and practical advice”. “Possessing strong analytical skills, he gets to grip with the intricacies of legal matters. Rijks and his team have a way of drafting complex legal information in a simple manner that is easily accessible to clients.”
Leading indivdual: Leading light Maarten Rijks “has an acute business understanding and is very practical in his approach”. A “potent litigator with great communication skills”, Rijks is also highly valued for his hawkish anti-counterfeiting efforts. He was recently involved in a landmark ECJ case for Van Haren against Christian Louboutin regarding the latter’s red sole trademark; another highlight has been his representation of JPMC Investment Group in invalidity proceedings against the Kind Group before the EUIPO.
Leading individual: “Soft IP maven Maarten Rijks heads the trademark and copyright team and has a penchant for cases involving luxury, sports and entertainment brands”. “He has a fine instinct for the best use of border measures – a subject on which he has written for the Oxford University Press”. “We are very satisfied with the way Maarten and his team work for all our entities worldwide,” reports one satisfied patron. “He is a trusted adviser and makes sure each case is treated with the utmost care. I appreciate his practical approach, his business understanding of my company and his ability to refer us to law firms in other jurisdictions”.
Representing a large well-known Dutch theme park in Dutch litigation on alleged copyright and neighbouring rights infringements including a debate on the scope of a CMO licence.
Representing Van Haren in legal proceedings against Airwair (Dr. Martens) up an to the Dutch Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal and the Benelux Court of Justice. Also representing Van Haren in the landmark case on the validity of Louboutin’s red sole mark at the European Court of Justice.
Press releaseRepresenting a Dutch solar company in a trademark infringement, bad faith trademark application and defamation matter before the Dutch courts.
Successfully assisting US companies in seizing IP addresses hosted with RIPE in Amsterdam. The US companies were already involved in litigation in the US against a Turkish defendant and had filed a claim for damages as a result of direct liability for copyright infringement.
Press releaseRepresenting a large US user generated content platform in intermediary liability litigation (trademarks and image rights) in the Netherlands.
Representing a large well-known Dutch theme park is Dutch litigation on alleged copyright and neighbouring rights infringements including a debate on the scope of an CMO licence.
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Portrait rights of employees under Dutch law: violation of portrait rights but no damages after all
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Diablo Fatbike Infringes on KNAAP BIKES' Design Rights
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par Wiebke Reuter, LL.M. (London) et Rita Fromm, Maître en droit
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