Oktay Simsek ⁽⁷¹⁾

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) has announced new official fees for patents, utility models, trademarks, and designs. The new fees, which took effect on January 1, 2023, represent an average increase of 80%. In some cases, the increase is even higher, with some…

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) participated in the Digital Access Service (DAS) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for electronically exchanging the priority documents. TURKPATENT will act as a depositing office and render WIPO DAS system operational as from June 01, 2022. From…

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) participated in the DesignClass system as of May 23, 2022, which is the design classification database of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). TURKPATENT has become the 15th non-EU IP office in the DesignClass. As part of the…

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) has updated its online registry databases for trademarks and designs. With the recent update, the users will be able to view the Articles of the Law which constitute the grounds for the first-instance and appeal decisions, being the ex-officio…

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has launched a new cloud-based patent search tool that enables a more convenient one-stop search of all US patents and published patent applications. This tool will serve by combining the features of four existing patent search tools…