Susan Kaak

Susan has long standing experience in the telecommunication media & technology and consumer goods and retail sectors and she specializes in transactions and litigation concerning intellectual property and information technology. Recent relevant experience includes:
 

• Implementing and andvise on Custom brand protection system in Europe, China and Latin America for an international toy company.
• Trademark litigation in a case of parallel imports of footwear.
• Advise on marketing issues and misleading advertisement litigation for a European telecom operator and for a national cable TV operator.
• Unfair competition and design rights litigation in a pan-European dispute between manufacturers in the snack food industry.
• Copyright and unfair competition litigation for a multinational toy manufacturer, including a case in which the Dutch Supreme Court accepted copyright protection for parlour game concepts.
• Trademark and domain name litigation for a number of companies in various industries.
• Advising and representing media and broadcasting companies with regard to copyrights on formats for TV programs.
• Database litigation for a pharmaceutical company.
• ICT contracts for various companies
• Advising an international TV production company on the tax-structuring of its intellectual property rights.

Susan is a regular speaker on intellectual property issues. She is a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), the Dutch Copyright Association (ALAI), the Benelux Trademark and Design Rights Association (BMM) and Marques, the Association of European Trademark Owners.

Susan graduated from Utrecht University and was admitted to the bar in 1992. She practised intellectual property at the Dutch firm of Van Diepen Van der Kroef and then became a member of the Dutch IP Group at Clifford Chance (1999-2004). In 2004 she co-founded Ventoux.

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