Loss Of Rights Due To Remaining Silent

The protection period of the registered trademark is ten years from the application date, as regulated in the Industrial Property Law numbered 6769 ("SMK"), and as long as the trademark is registered, it can benefit from the protection provisions stipulated in the SMK. In this context, trademark owner can demand invalidity of a trademark for subsequent trademark registration applications by showing its own trademark registration as a reason. SMK stipulated some conditions for the continuation of this protection and regulated some situations where registered trademark owner's right is not protected. Loss of rights due to remaining silent is one of these situations.

Loss of right due to remaining silent is the trademark owner's loss of the right to sue for invalidation against the person who subsequently registered the trademark in good faith, as a result of remaining silent. In order for this loss of right to occur, some conditions have been regulated under the SMK.