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Following an application by an individual, the Turkish Constitutional Court has considered whether the freedom of expression is violated by a prohibition to access a website where the trademark of a third company is used in the domain name.

•The First-Instance IP Court rejected a request for the invalidation of the mark WING CHUN in Classes 41 and 45, and the Court of Appeal affirmed

In a recent decision that challenges longstanding precedents, the Court of Cassation has concluded that the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office has no authority to create and maintain a...

Konu ile ilgili Türk Mahkemeleri önüne intikal eden uyuşmazlıkta verilen karar, yakın geçmişte Yargıtay tarafından da kesin karara bağlandı.

The Law extends the scope of protection by providing a generic definition for design.

FICPI-Turkey held a successful IP Law Seminar in October, at Yaşar University in Izmir, comparing European patent oppositions with Turkish oppositions

The Trademark Office has recently changed its practice in opposition proceedings with regard to national designations of IRs

According to Article 6/6 of the Turkish Industrial Property Code, "An application for registration of a trademark shall be refused upon the opposition of the right holder if it consists of a person's name, trade name, photography, copyright or any other intellectual property right of another."

The seminar "Invisible Features and Functionality of Designs" was held at the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office in Ankara on 21 March 2019

Five years have passed since the adoption of Turkey's new Intellectual Property Code ("IP Code"), which annulled the Trademark Decree-Law no. 556 ("D-L") back in January 2017.

As educated consumers should be taken into account, particularly when comparing the trademarks covering medicines...

The new Turkish IP Code no. 6769 ("IP Code"), which is now in force for almost more than a year, introduced the possibility for the trademark applicants ...

Turkey, has also enacted an independent Act i.e. Turkish Mediation Act on Civil Disputes which entered into force on 23 June 2013.

In November 2011, the Turkish Patent Institute (TPI) published Trademark and Industrial Design Examination Guidelines.

Articles 19, 25 and 29 of the Draft clearly indicate that non-use can be asserted as a counterclaim during the examination of an opposition by the applicant and/or as a counter-claim during litigation before the Court by the defendant.

One of the revolutionary changes introduced by the new Industrial Property Code No. 6769 is that the novelty search for design applications can be now carried out ex officio by TURKPATENT, and applicants are granted ...

Turkish IP legislation is mostly in compliance with EU legislation. With the adoption of IP Code No. 6769 back in 2017, it is fair to say that legislation regarding trademarks...