TURKLEGAL NEWS

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. The new amendments came into force after their publication in the Turkish Official Gazette…

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) announced on January 02, 2019 that search and examination requests will be able to be filed simultaneously to accelerate patent application processes and thus provide better quality services for the applicants. The applicants can request both search and examination at the…

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) has significantly discounted the official fees for search and examination reports in order to reduce patent and utility model registration costs. The discounted fees will be limited to a certain number of requests for search and examination as follows:…

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. The Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis filed an international patent application (International patent application no. PCT/EP2003/004151) designating,…

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) reduced some official fees up to 40%. New fees were published on September 05, 2018 in the Turkish Official fees. The discount covers patent filing fee, patent registration fee, assignment fee, 1 to 10 years patent annuities, trademark filing…