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It should be noted that unfair competition is regulated under the Turkish Commercial Code in an extensive and open-ended manner.

Gray market goods, commonly referred to as "parallel imports," are genuine and legitimate goods, but imported from outside the trademark owner's selective distributorship system.

Although the registration of the trademark by TÜRKPATENT is the most important and mandatory step in the protection of the trademark, it is not enough on its own for the protection of the trademark rights.

The fact that internet usage has become a determining factor of economy due to the expanding growth of e-commerce, disputes concerning industrial property rights in the virtual platform,...

Controversial provision of Trademark Decree annulled

The Turkish Court of Cassation has been one of the most important authorities of the Turkish judicial system, which has been on duty since mid-1800s. Since the establishment of the Court of Cassation,...

One of the areas where the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have been intensively...

The Turkish Patent Institute (TPI) opened the Draft Industrial Property Law for public consultation and that period closed on March 4.

Whether a trade name or business name can create trademark infringement and unfair competition, particularly in cases where the trade name is not used as a trademark, is a controversial issue in Turkey.

In its decision dated 13 February 2024 (No 2022/4962 E (Merits), No 2024/1005 K (Decision)), the 11th Civil Chamber of the Court of Cassation has upheld a Regional Court of Appeal decision...

In a recent decision that challenges longstanding precedents, the Court of Cassation has ruled that, in cases where trademark infringement has been found...

The first instance Civil Court for Intellectual and Industrial Rights in its decision rendered in October, 2020, pointed out that the use of the subject mark solely as a domain name is not deemed sufficient to prove the use of the mark ...

Filing trademarks on a broad coverage of goods and services lists without intention to use is a common practice in Turkey.

As the Web3 economy grows—including cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the metaverse—so do concerns regarding the protection of intellectual property rights.

Before the Industrial Property Law (IPL) no. 6769 entered into force on 10 January 2017, procedures related to trademark rights were governed by the former Decree Law no. 556 on the Protection of Trademarks ("Decree Law").

Jurisdiction in the case of online infringement of intellectual and industrial property rights has always been a subject of discussion in Turkish practice.

The amendments to the Law on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce No. 6563 ("Law") that was published on 7 July 2022 have come into force as of 1 January 2023.