A seminar was held on the topic of "Implementation and
Global Status of Plain Packaging of Cigarettes and The Relationship
Between the Implementation of Plain Packaging and Registered
Trademark Rights" at the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office
in Ankara on 26 February 2020. The speaker of the seminar was Mr.
Önder Erol Ünsal, who is a trademark examiner at the
Board of Re-Examination and Re-Evaluation and the founder and
author of "IPR Gezgini" that is a well-known IP Blog.
The speech of Mr. Önder Erol Ünsal started with the
discussion of the reasoning behind plain packaging, which gave way
to the explanation about the requirements and implementation of
plain packaging.
Briefly going through the history of plain packaging, Mr.
Önder Erol Ünsal mentioned that the proposals to
introduce plain packaging date back to 1990s and the first country
to impose plain packaging laws in 2012 was Australia, which was
followed by France, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Norway,
