TURKLEGAL NEWS

Turkey tops trademark filings in Europe in 2017 Prof. Dr. Habib Asan, the President of Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT), has given an interview regarding the industrial property activities and statistics in 2017 to Turkey's official news agency, Anadolu Agency (AA), on 26 January…

Turkish Plant Variety Office (also known as Central Directorate for Seed Registry and Certification (TTSMO)) announces its schedule of fees at the beginning of each year. The Office has announced its new schedule of fees on 17 January 2018. The schedule of fees can be…

Twitter is not able to register its brand Periscope for live broadcasting and streaming services in Turkey. The recent court decision has confirmed that the trademark application filed by Twitter for Periscope is not allowable due to earlier registered trademark rights of third parties. Twitter filed a trademark application…

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) is regularly preparing and releasing strategy documents setting out objectives and goals every five years. The Strategy Document for five years had been already issued early last year. However, as the Law regarding the establishment and tasks of the…

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. The opening of the workshop was made by…