Registering IP rights before Customs is a strong way of IP protection as it provides cumulative protection over all Turkish borders and customs authorities.

In the fight against counterfeiting, after EUIPO has launched the "Anti-Counterfeiting Blockathon Forum" in early 2021, now it intends to conduct a proof of concept at the end of this year...

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.

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.

The Turkish Procedural Law No: 6100 in force since October 01, 2011 introduced a new procedure enabling the parties to submit private expert reports to the court action.

Turkey: Landmark decision of the first instance court on: ruling the re-establishment of right as a remedy for requesting the validation of a European patent ...

Supreme Court Declares in the Long-Lasting Trademark Combat That the Attention Level for Unprescribed Medicines Is No Different Than the Prescribed Ones.

The Industrial Property Code No. 6769 which entered into force as of January 10, 2017 regulated within Article 9 that a registered trademark will be vulnerable to cancellation if not used within five years term ...

The IP Court of Istanbul recently dismissed a copyright infringement action involving compensation claim, on grounds that the plaintiff has not implemented the procedural requirement to apply for meditation before ...

Long-time expected Electronic Commerce Law No.6563 has been enacted by The Grand National Assembly of Turkey on October 23, 2014 in harmonization with 2000/31/ EC E-Commerce Directive

This exception states that personal data, save for the data on health and sexual life, can be processed without explicit consent if it is required by the laws.

The Constitutional Court of the Republic Of Turkey ("Constitutional Court" or "Court) rendered an important decision regarding freedom of speech with relation to creating unfair

The total number of European patent applications submitted in 2020 was almost equal to that of the past year despite the pandemic, down by 0.7 percent.

The provision of the Regulation acknowledges the Supreme Court case law in favor of IP right holders from a legislative perspective.

On August 8, 2017; the Regulation on the Duty-Free Stores (the "Regulation") issued by the Turkish Ministry of Customs and Trade was published in the Official Gazette.

The current Decree Law No. 551 on Protection of Patent Rights did not have any regulations enabling third parties to oppose against patent grant decisions.

Breach of data having caused the access to more photos than Facebook users are allowed, is announced by the Engineering Director of Facebook Tomer Bay on 14/12/2018 under the title of "Announcement about a photo API bugin our developer ecosystem".

The data controller has made a data breach notification, detailed below, to the Personal Data Protection Authority ("Authority") on April 29, 2019;

The Personal Data Protection Authority ("Authority") published a public announcement on February 15 2022, regarding technical and administrative measures to be taken by data controllers, ...