First Graduates of Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Intellectual Property in Turkey!

Congrats to The First Graduates of Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Intellectual Property in Turkey! The LL.M. Program which is jointly organized by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office and Ankara University has produced its first sixteen grad…

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Trademark Provisions in the Industrial Property Law (“Law”) No: 6769

The definition of trademark is broadened Pursuant to article 4 of the Law, the definition of trademark has been broadened to include all kinds of symbols including personal names, words, figures, colours, letters, numbers, sounds and shape…

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Patent and Utility Model Provisions in the Industrial Property Law (“Law”) No: 6769

The list of non-patentable subject matters is expanded   According to Article 82, inventions in all aspects of technology which are novel, contains an inventive step and are industrially applicable may be patented. In consideration of stat…

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Design Provisions in the Industrial Property Law (“Law”) No: 6769

The scope of protection is expanded with a wider definition of design The Law extends the scope of protection by providing a generic definition for design. Design means the appearance of the whole or part of a product or the ornamentation …

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Geographical Signs and Traditional Product Names Provisions in the Industrial Property Law (“Law”) No: 6769

Traditional product names are included in the Law Traditional product names that were not previously regulated are also included under the Law’s scope of protection. The Law intends to preserve traditional product names that are confused w…

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Symposium on Changes in The Legislation and The Prosecution of Trademark and Patent in The Frame of The New Industrial Property Law numbered 6769 (“New Law”)

“On the 2nd of June, Thursday, The Symposium on Changes in The Legislation and The Prosecution of Trademark and Patent in The Frame of The New Industrial Property Law numbered 6769  (“New Law”) has been organized in cooperation with the Tur…

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INTA Barcelona May 2017

Our partners attended the annual INTA (International Trademark Association) conference which took place in Barcelona this year. It was the largest INTA Annual Meeting over the past 138 years! INTA is a worldwide not-for-profit association …

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New Data Protection Law

A New Era for Turkish Data Privacy Practices Late in the night of 24 March 2016, Turkish National Parliament finally took the first step to have the long awaited Data Protection Law (“Law”) in place and sent the law to the President of Rep…

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Penalty-Free Period of Data Protection Law No 6698 has ended

As we have examined in our previous publications, the Law No.6698 on Protection of Personal Data (“DP Law”) has entered into force on 07.04.2016 and delayed enforceability of certain provisions for compliance until 07.10.2016, which…

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The New Industrial Property Law in a Nutshell

Turkey’s new Industrial Property Law (the “New Law”) has entered into force on January 10, 2017. The New Law reconciles all rules regarding the protection of trademarks, designs, patents and utility models, geographical indications and trad…

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