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Announcement - New member of The Lawyer Network in Netherlands

Published: Tuesday, February 27, 2024

We are delighted to announce that Jacqueline Schaap of 'Visser Schaap & Kreijger ​' has joined The Lawyer Network. Jacqueline has joined the network as our IP Litigation member in Netherlands.

Jacqueline Schaap has been an intellectual property and media lawyer since 1988. She is one of the founders and partner of the firm. She works particularly in the areas of unlawful press publications and reputation damage, copyright, design, format protection, (authors’) contract law, film law, trademark law and advertising law. She has very broad litigation experience.

Jacqueline advises, drafts contracts and litigates for national and international clients, including publishers, TV and film producers, broadcasters, designers, advertisers and brand owners. Clients appreciate her ability to get to the point quickly, to formulate concisely and clearly and her eye for detail.

Jacqueline is always accurate, likable and sincerely concerned with all the cases she is involved in.

Jacqueline is (co-)dean of the Amsterdam Bar Association, member of the Disciplinary Council for Financial Services and of the Supervisory Board of the Benelux Association for Trademark and Design Agents (BMM). She is a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), the European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA), Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI), Marques, the Benelux Association for Trademark and Design Law (BMM) and several Dutch Associations. Jacqueline regularly lectures in the field of intellectual property and unlawful press publications.

Jacqueline Schaap has been designated a ‘key individual’ by Chambers for 11 years and has also been a ‘leading individual’ in media and entertainment in Legal 500 for many years. She has received the ‘Client Choice Award’ for copyright lawyer several times and has been designated ‘Media lawyer of the year’ and ‘Copyright lawyer of the year’ several times by Best Lawyer.

If you have a requirement in this area, please get in touch with Jacqueline via the below profile.

We welcome Jacqueline to the network and look forward to working with them on future transactions.

Jacqueline Schaap
Visser Schaap & Kreijger ​
Country:
Netherlands
Practice Area:
IP Litigation
Website:
Phone Number:
020 723 8900
Fax:
020 723 8999
Jacqueline Schaap has been an intellectual property and media lawyer since 1988. She is one of the founders and partner of the firm. She works particularly in the areas of unlawful press publications and reputation damage, copyright, design, format protection, (authors’) contract law, film law, trademark law and advertising law. She has very broad litigation experience. Jacqueline advises, drafts contracts and litigates for national and international clients, including publishers, TV and film producers, broadcasters, designers, advertisers and brand owners. Clients appreciate her ability to get to the point quickly, to formulate concisely and clearly and her eye for detail. Jacqueline is always accurate, likable and sincerely concerned with all the cases she is involved in. Jacqueline is (co-)dean of the Amsterdam Bar Association, member of the Disciplinary Council for Financial Services and of the Supervisory Board of the Benelux Association for Trademark and Design Agents (BMM). She is a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), the European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA), Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI), Marques, the Benelux Association for Trademark and Design Law (BMM) and several Dutch Associations. Jacqueline regularly lectures in the field of intellectual property and unlawful press publications. Jacqueline Schaap has been designated a ‘key individual’ by Chambers for 11 years and has also been a ‘leading individual’ in media and entertainment in Legal 500 for many years. She has received the ‘Client Choice Award’ for copyright lawyer several times and has been designated ‘Media lawyer of the year’ and ‘Copyright lawyer of the year’ several times by Best Lawyer. Some recommendations for Jacqueline: Legal 500 (2022) calls her “a giant in media entertainment. The kind of lawyer you want on your side in times of crisis.” Chambers (2022) says of her “she knows the business, the market and the players and she is very easy to access and responds very quickly” and “she manages difficult cases well“. Jacqueline has registered “Intellectual property law” as her main area of law in the register of areas of law of the Dutch Bar Association. Pursuant to this registration, she is obliged to obtain ten training points in this area of law each calendar year according to the standards of the Dutch Bar Association. Representative work Action against Facebook for keeping removed misleading bitcoin ads featuring the portrait of a Dutch celebrity; Proceedings against Thierry Baudet over regarding several tweets in which he compared the corona measures to the Holocaust; Various proceedings for TV producers, broadcasters and publishers on the legality of TV broadcasts and press publications in which portrait rights, use of hidden cameras and broadcast/publication bans, among others, were addressed; Various proceedings on the format of TV programmes; Advice on advertising, price displays and promotional campaigns to a large supermarket chain; Litigation on copyright and design rights to a chair where the issue was whether a chair based on the 1940s-1960s “sprite chair” infringed Homefashion Group’s Liverno chair.

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