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rticle 15 of Law on the Protection of Competition numbered 4054 authorizes the Competition Authority to conduct on-site inspections at the undertakings' premises if deemed necessary in carrying out the duties assigned to it by the Law.

In Turkish competition law, the procedures, and principles of the right of access to the file, which is provided to the parties of the investigation initiated by the Authority for the purpose...

The Communiqué Amending the Communiqué (Communiqué No: 2010/3) on the Regulation of the Right of Access to the File and Protection of Trade Secrets (Communiqué No: 2025/3) ("New Communiqué")...

We are connected to the whole world with simply the click of a button. In moments a trade secret can become public knowledge, patents or designs can lose their novelty, or all work and effort invested...

Employees may have access to important and confidential information related to the employer, including the company's operations, clientele and trade secrets.

The prevailing legal doctrine holds that all digital products containing data—particularly software—acquire the nature of goods when they are recorded on physical carriers such as CDs, portable storage devices, or computer memory

The Competition Authority has published the Communiqué on the Regulation of the Right of Access to Files and the Protection of Trade Secrets (Communiqué No: 2010/3 in Circular No: 2025/3) in the Official Gazette No 33037, dated 4 October 2025.

With the Communiqué Amending the Communiqué (Communiqué No: 2010/3) on the Regulation of the Right of Access to the File and Protection of Trade Secrets (Communiqué No: 2025/3) ("New Communiqué") published in the Official Gazette dated 4 October 2025 and numbered 33037.

Internal investigations can lead to legal action if they uncover crimes or violate employee rights. To avoid this, companies must conduct investigations lawfully, ensuring evidence...

The issue of which court has jurisdiction over lawsuits arising from the breach of non-compete obligations, regulated under Articles 444 to 447 of the Turkish Code of Obligations ("TCO")...

Internal investigations can lead to legal action if they uncover crimes or violate employee rights. To avoid this, companies must conduct investigations...

During their employment, workers are likely to learn the employer's trade secrets, proprietary information and professional methods, depending on their position and job description.

Confidentiality agreements, sometimes called secrecy or non-disclosure agreements, are contracts entered into by two or more parties in which some or all of the parties agree that certain types of information that pass from one party to the other or that are created by one of the parties, or in some cases by all of the parties, will remain confidential. Confidentiality agreements perform several functions. First and foremost, they protect sensitive technical or commercial information from disclo

An employment relationship is, by its nature, a continuous legal relationship based on an element of trust between the parties. During the term of the employment contract, the employee is under an obligation to protect the employer’s interests, act in accordance with the duty of loyalty, and refrain from competing with the employer. However, upon termination of the employment contract, the employee’s freedom to work and right to freely determine his or her economic future come into play.

On 11 July 2023, the European Commission published a strategy paper titled "An EU Initiative on Web 4.0 and Virtual Worlds: A Head Start in The Next Technological Transition" ("Strategy Paper")...

Dünya Fikri Mülkiyet Örgütü ("WIPO") 27 Mayıs 2020 tarihinde kendi zaman damgası hizmeti olan WIPO PROOF'u tanıttı ve zaman damgası hizmeti vermeye başladı.

Under Turkish law, software is protected within the scope of the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works No. 5846 ("Copyright Law")...