Dibber Intellectual Property
Dibber® refers, among other things, to the group of companies in which Dibber AS, a Norwegian private limited company with identification number 998 831 067, is the ultimate parent company (also the "Dibber Group"). The Dibber Group is engaged in the education sector worldwide and owns and operates and is the franchisor with respect to various education units—such as for early childhood development those operated under the labels kindergarten, nursery, daycare, childcare centre, creche, pre-school and pre-primary school, play school and before-and-after programmes and other services and for later childhood development those provided under the labels school and before-and-after programmes and other services—and provides associated services, inter alia software for the education sector, including an app (respectively the "Dibber app" and together the "Dibber Enterprise").
The Dibber Enterprise is generally conducted under the 'Dibber' name and trademark, always in the 'Dibber Way', among other things a total quality leadership and management system, and benefitting from other Intellectual Property (as defined below) of the Dibber Group (the "Dibber Intellectual Property"). The Dibber Intellectual Property spans further names and trademarks, registered and unregistered, that the Dibber Enterprise is conducted under, such as CreaKids, Creation, Children’s International School (CIS), Dibber Play School, Dibber International Preschool, Dibber International Preschools, Himpelchen und Pimpelchen, Læringsverkstedet, Pilke, Pilke päiväkodit (Pilke Kindergartens), Pilke perhepalvelut (Pilke Family Services), Pilke lastenhoito (Pilke Childcare) and Pilke iltapäiväkerhot (Pilke Afternoon Clubs) and all of their associated marks (logos, slogans and taglines) and other, including, inter alia, lifelong learners with a heart for the world, the Dibber Childhood, Golden Moments, the Dibber Globe, Learning Friends, Heart Programme, the Dibber Meal, the Dibber Child Kit and much more. Other important parts of the Dibber Intellectual Property are copyrighted literary and artistic material formalizing Dibber’s pedagogy and didactics as well as copyrighted software in the Dibber app. Dibber, at its sole discretion, may or may not use the symbols™ (the trademark symbol) and ® (the registered trademark symbol) as a suffix next to such marks. Usage or non-usage of such does not affect the rights of Dibber in any way. Dibber may apply for and maintain registrations of patents or trademarks, copyright and other protection for Intellectual Property (intellectual property rights) in the relevant names, anywhere in the world at its sole discretion. All Dibber Intellectual Property, existing and new, is and be held directly and indirectly by Dibber AS, as provided for by agreement between the members of the Dibber Group.
The Dibber Intellectual Property as such and any material containing Dibber Intellectual Property in any form (physical, digital, virtual) shall not be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any way, such as in a sale, license, rent, modification, distribution, copying, reproduction, transmission, public display, public performance, publication, adaption, editing, creation of derivative works or other exploitation or by any means, including by photocopying, recording or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of Dibber. If the Dibber Group has any reason to believe that a third party may be infringing (including diluting) Dibber Intellectual Property, Dibber may elect to enforce its rights through legal actions or otherwise. If any party wrongly acquires any rights over Dibber Intellectual Property, such party shall promptly and irrevocably restore the matter.
All material containing Dibber Intellectual Property or that is otherwise associated with Dibber, in any form (whether physical, digital, virtual), is for general information purposes only. It is created with the understanding that Dibber is not engaged in rendering legal, investment, accounting or other professional services or similar services. While Dibber uses its best efforts in preparing all its material, it makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the information for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk and neither Dibber nor its franchisees or other trusted partners can accept any responsibility for any errors or omissions or for any consequences arising from the use of the information in any of its material and no one of them shall be liable in any way.
For any permission requests with respect to the Dibber Intellectual Property, please contact intellectualproperty@dibberfamily.com.
"Intellectual Property" means any and all intellectual property and intellectual property rights (and any right to apply for the registration of such rights and all renewals and extensions), throughout the world, whether industrial or copyright or other, existing now, registered or registerable, and includes but is not limited to the property and rights in respect of or associated with: company and other entity names; trade names; logos; characters; trademarks; service names; service marks; domain names; innovations; patents; industrial designs and other designs; trade secrets (comprising, inter alia, such as strategy, tactics, systems, documentation, policies and codes of conducts, manuals knowledge, know-how, skills, practices, processes, concepts, developments, methodologies, improvements and confidential information in general); software, computer programs, applications, source code, object code; copyrights (including future copyrights and rights in the nature of or analogous to copyright) and goodwill.