TURKLEGAL NEWS

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…

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) has taken some measures to protect the personal data under the Law No. 6608 for the protection of the personal data. The measures cover important restrictions for preventing the revelation of personal data on online patent, trademark and design…

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) has made some procedural changes for recording changes of names, kinds and addresses of applicants and right holders as well as assigning customer numbers. In the new procedure, TURKPATENT will no longer request the addresses of local persons (natural…

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) announced the industrial property application statistics for 2020. In 2020, it was noted that there was an increase of 0.7% in domestic patent applications, 23.2% in domestic utility model applications, 30.57% in domestic trademark applications, and 16.64% in domestic…

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) announced new official fees for patents, utility models, trademarks and designs effective January 01, 2021. The fees schedule was published in the Official Gazette on December 30, 2020. The official fees for patent, utility models, trademarks and designs have…