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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…

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…

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 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…