Selma Ünlü > NSN Law Firm > Istanbul, Turkey > Lawyer Profile

NSN Law Firm
BURHANIYE MAH ATILLA SOK
NO 6 ALTUNIZADE
34676 ISTANBUL
Turkey

Work Department

Intellectual Property Law, Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences Law, Anti-Corruption

Position

Senior Partner

Career

Selma Ünlü has 28 years of experience in IP, Advertising & Life Sciences and IT Law practice; until her joining to NSN Law Firm as a Senior Partner, she worked in an international top tier law firm as an equity partner and head of IP. Currently, she is leading the same practice groups in NSN Law firm. She has been regularly recognized by Legal 500, World Trademark Review and Monthly Lawyer. She is a court-appointed expert before IP courts and Commercial Court on IP and IT related disputes. She is a domain name panelist before WIPO and ADNRSC. She takes roles in comities in ECTA and Marques.

She is an experienced IP litigator and has wide ranging experience advising major clients in cross-border IP litigation matters including but limited to Trademark, Copyright, Unfair Competition, Design and Geographical Indication and Plant Varieties. She handled large national and multinational IP portfolios, from the registration to complex litigation, of the world’s leading companies for consecutive many years. She has significant experience in negotiating complex license, know how, copyright agreements and in IP due diligence. She is the author of numerous publications on protection of well-known marks, 3D marks, unregistered marks, medicinal marks, INN routes, domain names, online infringements and advertisements.

She has specialization in Life Sciences Law, IP and pharmaceutical Trademarks and Patent litigations.

Lastly, this year Selma Ünlü has been chosen among 250 IP women lawyer in the as may be confirmed from the link https://www.ipstars.com/lawyers/nsn-law-firm/unlu-selma/p-2239 .

Languages

English

Memberships

Istanbul Bar Association, Healthcare Products Association, WIPO Domain Name Dispute Resolution Panel (Panellist), AIPPI

Education

Graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Law in 1989. She obtained her Diploma in Private International Law, from Wolverhampton University, in United Kingdom by writing her thesis on domicile of foreigners.

Lawyer Rankings

Turkey > Intellectual property

(Hall of Fame)

Selma ÜnlüNSN Law Firm

NSN Law Firm continues to prove itself as a leading firm for trade marks, patent, and copyright matters. With its ‘depth and breadth of IP experience’, the team handles IP matters across a spectrum of industries such as biotechnology, automotive, engineering, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals, among others. The team is co-led by Selma Ünlü, Gülay Göksu Anul, Simge Şahin, and Bilge Derinbay. Ünlü is a qualified trade mark and patent attorney who specialises in IP matters within the life sciences sector, while Derinbay focuses predominately on IP transactions in the media and entertainment industry. Göksu Anul and Şahin manage IP portfolios for a diverse range of clients.

Turkey > Compliance

NSN Law Firm, praised for its ‘exceptional wealth’ of industry knowledge, is known for its specialism in all matters relating to healthcare, pharma, and medical devices, in addition to clinical trials within the biotech industry. All co-leading the team, Selma Ünlü maintains a strong regulatory practice, advising on reimbursement and marketing authorisation issues; Bilge Derinbay assists both international and domestic clients with data protection matters, often representing them before government authorities in challenges against administrative sanctions; and Aylin Aydoğmuş is known for handling anti-corruption issues for pharma companies. With extensive prior in-house experience in the pharma industry, Duygu Beyazo İpek regularly assists clients with the implementation and drafting of international compliance policies and operating procedures.