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Alfred Meijboom

Partner, Attorney at law

Specialisms

Trademark law / Sport marketing / Sponsoring / Domain name disputes / Intellectual property / IP litigation / Online content / Trade names / Design law / Database rights / Licencing / Emerging technologies / IT litigation & arbitration / Fashion Retail / Cyber security.

Profile

As one of the founding partners, today Alfred leads the Intellectual Property practice. He is also one of the leading partners in Kennedy Van der Laan’s Customised Alliance. Clients seek his advise for his expertise in relation to the IT industry and sports marketing matters, especially regarding trademark, licensing and domain name issues. His practice includes both contentious and non-contentious work across multiple industries.

Alfred is a qualified arbitrator at SGOA (Dutch Foundation for the Settlement of Automation Disputes) and the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. He is a panellist in domain name disputes at WIPO and the Czech Arbitration Court. Furthermore, Alfred is editor at ‘Computerrecht’, co-founder of VIRA (Dutch Association for Computer Lawyers) and Officer at the ‘Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Committee’ of the IBA (International Bar Association), where he previously chaired the Licensing Intellectual Property and International Treaties Subcommittee and the Trademark Subcommittee.

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Recommendations

The Legal 500 EMEA 2018 - Intellectual Property

"Alfred Meijboom leads the ‘extremely efficient’ team at Kennedy Van der Laan; he and Maarten Schut are ‘deeply knowledgeable about trade marks, copyrights and design rights’, and have ‘a remarkable understanding of the market’. Schut represented Converse in anti-counterfeit proceedings, and advised Tommy Hilfiger on various soft IP infringement matters."

Sarah Humphries, Orange Brand Services Ltd. 2018 - Intellectual Property

“Orange has worked with Alfred Meijboom at KVdL for a number of years and very much values his high quality advice. He consistently obtains the best results for our Orange Brand in the Netherlands”

WIPR 2018 - Intellectual Property - Ranked

Recent work

  • Frequently acting on behalf of Social Media Platforms regarding user data protection.

  • Assisted an international, not-for-profit organisation with regard to a dispute over a royalty split settlement agreement.

  • Advising a global leader in animal nutrition and aquafeed an ongoing basis about licensing arrangements and R&D co-operations with third parties.