Frenchman wants to frustrate Hadopi Act with trademark

The Frenchman Renaud Veeckman filed for the ‘HADOPI’ trademark six months earlier than the French government, reports the French newspaper La Provence according Zero Paid. Veeckman happens to be an opponent of the French Hadopi Act, aiming to tackle online copyright infringement.

It remains questionable whether Veeckman's trademark will remain intact in front of a judge, since a mark that is registered in ‘bad faith’ is void. If Veeckman's trademark registration is maintained, the Frenchman is planning to start a symbolic compensation procedure against the French government for the amount of one euro.

It is not the first time the French are trying to frustrate the Hadopi law through intellectual property law itself. According to an earlier post the Hadopi logo would infringe on the copyrights of designer Jean-Francois Porchez. The French ministry would lack permission to use his Bonjour font.

The Hadopi law recently became fully operational.