Services
Services provided by VBLA include advice about if and how to protect your ideas, designs and trademarks, guidance with the registration procedure, drafting and reviewing all sorts of agreements. VBLA has certain fixed priced products and sometimes works at an hourly rate.
Services
Protecting your intellectual property
A lot of the things you create - whether you write an article for a magazine or a blog, make a picture, create graphic designs, or program software for your new app – are eligible for protection. How does that work in practice? What is allowed using someone else’s creations and what is not? How do you protect your creations to an optimal level in order to avoid others taking advantage of your work with you being left without adequate compensation for your efforts and creativity? If you can use a bit of help with all that, please do contact us.
Have a look here for an real-life example of the importance of intellectual property protection.
Protecting your brand
Each company, no matter its size, has something to do with branding. It’s a matter of great importance since people tend to associate the goods or services of a company with its branding. The brand name and logo of a company are important elements of its visual identity as well as valuable assets. Sometimes even the most valuable assets, for example in the case of Apple or Coca Cola. It is therefore key to protect the brand against potentially detrimental use by others. Trademark registration is often part of a brand’s protection strategy. The process of obtaining such a registration can be daunting and incomprehensible. Professional support from the moment you start thinking about your business’ name and logo is essential. We have expertise in the area of trademark law and experience in filing trademarks in the UK, the EU and worldwide.
Please click here for an example of how we can help.
Drafting and reviewing contracts
Well drafted and tailor made contracts are essential to any business, whether you’re a freelancer or running a big company. Agreements made orally should be recorded in a written contract in order to avoid conflicts. Sometimes a template freely available on the internet can be used, but more often than not such a template is not suitable to your specific situation and you’re better off in the long run spending some money on a tailormade contract. VBLA has a lot of experience in drafting a variety of contracts, both in English and Dutch.
But also if you have an existing contract which you need updated or reviewed, we can be of service.
A few types of contracts we draft:
Terms and Conditions
Privacy policies
NDA’s
License agreements
Software agreements
Please have a look here for reviews about our contract services.
Obtain advice
If you have a question about a legal issue, please tell us about it. We have specialist expertise in the fields of copyright, trademarks, design rights, and data protection and we know a lot about contracts.
Should you have an issue about something else, do not hesitate to contact us as well. We can always consider whether we can be of service or refer you to another specialist in our network if we can’t. We do not provide services in the field of patents, family law, criminal law, real estate or property law, or administrative law.
Contact us with your question here immediately.