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TÜRKPATENT announces new official fees effective January 1, 2026

Oktay Simsek — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:48:00 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has announced revised official fees applicable to patents, utility models, trademarks, and industrial designs, which entered into force on 1 January 2026.

Turkish PTO (TÜRKPATENT) announced new official fees effective January 01, 2024

Oktay Simsek — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 15:33:00 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has announced revised official fees applicable to patents, utility models, trademarks and industrial designs in Türkiye, effective as of January 1, 2024.

Turkish industrial property statistics for 2022 announced

Oktay Simsek — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 22:34:57 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has published its industrial property statistics for 2022, revealing significant growth in domestic intellectual property filings across all major categories.

Turkish Plant Variety Office announced new schedule of fees for 2022

Oktay Simsek — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 18:41:32 +0300

The Turkish Plant Variety Office has announced an updated schedule of official fees applicable to plant variety protection and breeders’ rights procedures in Türkiye.

Turkey further extended IP deadlines

Oktay Simsek — Wed, 06 May 2020 03:23:23 +0300

Turkey has further extended IP deadlines keeping the time limits suspended as from 13 March 2020 due to noval coronovirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

Turkish IP deadlines extended due to coronavirus

Oktay Simsek — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 18:39:22 +0300

Turkey has recently extended legal and administrative deadlines, including those regarding the IP-related matters, due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic .

Turkish Plant Variety Office published a report for the activities of the plant varieties in 2019

Oktay Simsek — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 12:44:57 +0300

Turkish Plant Variety Office has published an annual report regarding the applications and registrations for the plant varieties in 2019.

The working conditions of the Turkish IP Academy specified by the newly published regulation

Oktay Simsek — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:20:37 +0300

Implementing Regulation on Intellectual Property Academy (Regulation No. 30948) was published in the Turkish Official Gazette on November 14, 2019.

Turkish Supreme Court said the final word on non-use cancellation actions

Oktay Simsek — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:49:42 +0300

Turkish Supreme Court (TCC) has recently clarified a long-disputed issue on non-use of trade marks.

Use or non-use matter for patents in Turkey

Oktay Simsek — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:54:02 +0300

The period for using or working a patented invention is typically three years as from the publication of the patent grant in the Turkish Patent Bulletin or four years as from the application date of the patent, whichever is the later. This period is especially important in respect of the compulsory requests, as it is not possible for third parties to request compulsory license before the expiration of this statuary period.

Turkish IP System has become more modern by new amendments

Oktay Simsek — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 04:15:00 +0300

The Implementing Regulation on Industrial Property Code (Reg. No. 30825) has been amended for simplifying the procedures and formalities regarding the rights-cancelling or rights-restricting actions before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office.

Novartis loses a Glivec patent case in Turkey

Oktay Simsek — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 12:22:00 +0300

The Turkish Constitutional Court has ruled that there has been no violation of the property rights due to the invalidation of one of “Glivec®” patents of Novartis in Turkey.

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Sat, 07 Jul 2018 18:23:33 +0600

The decisions of Intellectual and Industrial Property Courts of Turkey will become electronically accessible

Oktay Simsek — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:38:00 +0300

Ministry of Justice of Turkey has gradually started to give online access to the decisions of intellectual property and industrial property rights courts and the commercial civil courts for allowing the investors informed of the judicial processes.

Turkey is expanding the scope of its Patent Support Program to increase the patenting activity in the country

Oktay Simsek — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 11:27:00 +0300

Patent Support Program, which is conducted in cooperation with The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT), has been amended.

Summit on Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0. and Intellectual Property Law to be held on February 12th, 2018

Oktay Simsek — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:24:00 +0300

The “Summit on Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0 and Intellectual Property Law,” organized by the Research and Application Center for Intellectual and Industrial Rights of Ankara University (FISAUM), will be held on 12 February 2018 in Türkiye.

Twitter's long struggle to register Periscope in Turkey

Oktay Simsek — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:14:00 +0300

Twitter is not able to register its brand Periscope for live broadcasting and streaming services in Turkey.

A workshop on the Regulation for inventions made by universities and employees was held by Turkish Patent and Trademark Office

Oktay Simsek — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:20:00 +0300

A workshop on the Implementing Regulation for “Employee Inventions, Inventions Made in Higher Education Institutions and Inventions Arising in Public Supported Projects” which had come into force on September 29, 2017 was held on January 11, 2017.

New practice for due dates for renewal fees of Turkish trademarks and designs to be applied as from January 10, 2018

Oktay Simsek — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 19:12:00 +0300

Turkey introduced its New Industrial Property Code of Laws for patents, trademarks, designs, geographical indications last year on January 10, 2017.

Implementing Regulation of Technology Transfer Offices for Higher Education Institutions has come into force

Oktay Simsek — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:55:00 +0300

Regulation of Technology Transfer Office for Turkish Higher Education Institutions, which was prepared by Council of Higher Education of Turkey (YÖK), was published in Turkish Official Gazette and entered into force.

Implementing regulations on structure and activities of Turkish Biotechnology Institute has been recently published and come into force

Oktay Simsek — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:53:00 +0300

Newly introduced implementing regulations on structure and activities of Turkish Biotechnology Institute obligates the Institute to follow the national and international literature and patents in the field of biotechnology, explore and realize new patent application fields and carry out or support these processes on behalf of the researchers as necessary in order to protect and develop the rights of intellectual property within the framework of the procedures and principles to be determined by the Board of Directors as well as propose to the President on initiatives for the purpose of transferring, acquiring, selling and acquiring the ownership of intellectual property rights and licenses.