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Property is a constitutional right. Intellectual property is its integral part. Turkish legislation protects the rights regarding trademarks under Decree-Law on the Protection of Trademarks numbered 556

Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa VARANK reported that the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office has received 126,783 domestic industrial property applications between January-June 2022.

Following the announcement of the Information Technologies and Communication Authority (" BTK ") dated 19 August 2022, ".tr" Network Information System (" TRABIS ") as of 14 September 2022.") started its activities.

In this second article of our series on the Turkish technology ecosystem, we are taking a deep look into NFTs from a legal perspective.

Batman, one of the most important fictional super heroes, is the covert identity of a rich business person Bruce Wayne.

Turkish law provides for both the assignment and license of trademarks. It is important to distinguish trademark related rights borne from assignment and licensing as this will determine the scope of rights that are exercisable.

It is not a secret that Turkey has an important geographical location for production and sales of counterfeit products as well as the ones in transit.

Counterfeit perfume enforcement does not always involve finished products ready for sale. In raids targeting manufacturers, warehouses and suppliers, authorities may instead encounter empty perfume bottles, caps, packaging materials, labels, molds/printing plates and other components bearing counterfeit trademarks, which are intended to be assembled or filled at a later stage.

The Design Strategy and Action Plan 2018-2020 ("Plan") was published in the Official Gazette dated June 28, 2018 and numbered 30462.

In a follow-up to their post on the Class 46 blog about the 81st ICANN meeting, Mutlu Yıldırım Köse and Baran Güney explore domain name disputes and online enforcement in Türkiye.

In a follow-up to their post on the Class 46 blog about the 81st ICANN meeting, Mutlu Yıldırım Köse and Baran Güney explore domain name disputes and online enforcement in Türkiye.

A decision of 29 March 2023 of the General Assembly of the Turkish Court of Cassation has clarified whether the examination of lawfulness of the Turkish...

In accordance with the statistics published by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Institution, 105,996 trademarks were registered with the TurkPatent in 2018 in total; whereas, 81,911 of the domestic trademarks ...

2021 yılının başından itibaren sıklıkla duyduğumuz Non-Fungible Token'lar (NFT) blockchain (blokzincir) teknolojisini kullanan ve çoğunlukla Ethereum blokzincir yapısında işletilen dijital varlıklardır.

September 20th is officially recognized as International NFT Day. On September 20th, 2017, the term NFT (non-fungible token)...

With the entry into force of the Industrial Property Code ("IPC") in 2017, it was stipulated that, upon request, the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office ("TPTO") was authorized to decide on the revocation of a trademark (IPC Art. 26).

The decision also deals with the hot topic of how, and under which conditions, an earlier trademark provides vested rights to its owner.

Article 6 of the Code of Industrial Property Law No. 6769 ("SMK") stipulates that "If there is a likelihood of confusion, including the possibility of association by the public, ...