When the Industrial Property Law came into force on 10 January
2017, the introduction of the post grant opposition procedure for
national patent applications or the new "satisfying national
market's need" criteria concerning compulsory license due
to non-use of the patent appeared to be of the most significance.
However, as usual, the devil was hidden in the detail. When we
first put the new law into practice, we experienced that other
provisions such as the use requirement of patents and filing a
declaration on use before the Turkish Patent Office or employee
inventions can have many different interpretations. Meanwhile,
Discovery of Evidence and Preliminary Injunction (PI), Damages,
Bolar Exemption, Impact of EPO Opposition on National Proceedings
remained the hottest topics in relation to Patent litigation in
Turkey. It is worth noting also that the Judges appointed to IP
Courts from other civil courts, and particularly from the
commercial courts, interpreted the
