Article 90
(1) A patent application includes;
a) application form;
b) description explaining the subject of the invention;
c) the claims;
ç) the pictures which were referred in the description or claims;
d) the abstract;
e) information of the payment for the application fee.
(2) Description, claims, abstract and drawings, if any, may be submitted in the language of one of the countries which are parties of Paris Convention or Agreement on
Establishing the World Trade Organization or the countries performing the reciprocity principle within the application.
(3) The patent application date shall be confirmed and the application process begins as of the date of submission of all the factors mentioned below to the Office.
a) The request of granting a patent.
b) The applicant’s identity and contact information.
c) A description written in Turkish or in one of the languages mentioned in paragraph 2 or a referral to a previous application.
(4) If the invention is based on a genetic source or a traditional knowledge related to the genetic source, the explanation regarding where the source is obtained from shall take place in the patent application.
(5) The inventor shall be declared in the application. However, the inventor may ask to remain anonymous. In case the applicant is not the inventor or is only one or a few of the inventors, such persons shall be obliged to explain the way they obtained the right to file a patent application in the application documents.
(6) The inventor has a right to request from the applicant or patentee to act as the inventor and to be declared their names.
(7) Procedure and rules regarding the application shall be determined by a regulation.