TURKLEGAL NEWS

Turkish Plant Variety Office announced its new schedule of fees for registering the new plant varieties in Turkey. The official fees were increased by 25% The amount of the frequently paid fees are as follows: The list of the official fees can be found here.

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) has released statistics of 2021. A total number of 248,597 domestic industrial property applications were filed in 2021, including 8,439 patent applications, 4,418 utility model applications, 176,493 trademark applications and 59,247 design applications. Compared to the previous year 2020,…

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) announced new official fees for patents, utility models, trademarks and designs effective January 01, 2022. The official fees for patents, utility models, trademarks and designs have been increased at a rate of average 36%. Exceptionally, the official fees related…

United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined the Madrid Protocol. The protocol will enter into force for the UAE on 28 December 2021. The Government of the UAE deposited its instrument of accession to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on September 28, 2021. With the participation…

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has updated its trademark examination guideline. TÜRKPATENT has updated the guideline regarding the confusingly similarities of the trademarks, one of the relative refusal grounds in the opposition-based examinations. The updated sections cover the basic approaches of handling the examinations…