Provisional Article 1
(1) National and international trademark and design and geographical sign applications filed at the Institute before the date of publication of this
Code shall be concluded in accordance with the provisions of the legislation in force at the time of filing the application. However, geographical sign applications filed at the Institute before the publication date of this Code but not having been announced yet, shall be published in the Bulletin without prejudice to the provisions of the annulled Decree Law No. 555 concerning period of opposition.
(2) National patent and utility model applications filed before the date of publication of this Code shall be concluded in accordance with the provisions of the legislation in force at the time of filing the application. In concluding the patent of addition applications filed after the date of entry into force of this provision, while converting the patent of addition application or patent of addition into an independent patent application or a patent, the provisions of the legislation in force at the date of filing of the main patent application shall apply. While converting a patent granted without examination into a patent with examination, changing a patent application into a utility model application or a utility model application into a patent application, invalidating patent and utility models, the provisions of the legislation in force a the date of application shall apply. Patent applications and utility model applications filed via international or regional agreements, which entered into national phase before the date of entry into force of this provision, shall be concluded in line with the legislation provisions in force at the date of entry into national phase.
(3) The provisional Article 4 of the annulled Decree Law No. 551 shall continue to apply to the patents that are within the scope of the same Article.
(4) For patents and utility models granted in line with the previous legislation provisions, the provisions of this Code shall apply except for the Articles 99, 138, 144, fifth paragraph of the Article 113 and eighth paragraph of the Article 121.