Chinese practices flown over to the Netherlands!
Apparently, it is lucrative, because also in the Netherlands more and more organizations are popping up that try to take money from brand owners.
The most common scam methods are:
- An offer packaged as an official-looking document demanding payment from trademark owners a recently filed trademark application. On the BOIP website you will find a long list of companies that have approached trademark owners with a misleading offer. https://www.boip.int/en/beware-misleading-invoices. These confusing letters do not come from our office, BOIP or other official trademark authorities.
- An offer to renew your trademark registrations at high fees.
- An offer to register your trademark or domain name before someone else claims it. This email or letter is packaged as a warning that someone is trying to register your name. You then receive an email offering to register your name as a trademark or domain name to secure your rights. This scam was invented in China but recently relations received a mail from the Dutch company www.iptregister.net.
So be alert and NEVER pay invoices from unknown parties for services to protect your trademarks or domain names!!!
Feel free to check with us before you pay.
