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Letters of Consent in Turkish Trademark Practice

O. Simsek — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:30:00 +0300

Introduction

The Turkish trademark registration process consists of several stages, including formal examination, examination on absolute grounds, publication, opposition proceedings, and final registration before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (“TÜRKPATENT”).

TÜRKPATENT updates the list of goods & services for trademarks (Nice Classification 13th Edition)

Oktay Simsek — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:48:10 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has revised the list of goods and services for trademark applications in line with the 13th Edition of the Nice Classification (NCL), which entered into force on 1 January 2026.

TÜRKPATENT announces new official fees effective January 1, 2026

Oktay Simsek — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:48:00 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has announced revised official fees applicable to patents, utility models, trademarks, and industrial designs, which entered into force on 1 January 2026.

Patent Prosecution in Türkiye: A Practical Overview

O. Simsek — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0300

Patent Prosecution in Türkiye: What You Need to Know

Türkiye offers a structured and increasingly sophisticated patent system under the Turkish Industrial Property Code (Law No. 6769 ). Understanding the procedural steps—and the strategic choices within them—is essential for securing robust protection.

Trademark Cancellation Actions in Türkiye: Procedure, Timeline and Practice

O. Simsek — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:05:00 +0300

Overview

Trademark cancellation actions in Türkiye are handled administratively before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT), based on the framework set out in the Industrial Property Code No. 6769 and its implementing regulations.

TÜRKPATENT introduced new fee structure for trademarks

Oktay Simsek — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 18:07:48 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office has implemented significant changes to its trademark fee structure, shifting the renewal fees from a fixed to a tiered system based on the number of classes, introducing a requirement for payment of fees for retail and wholesale services in Class 35, and requiring an escrow payment for trademark cancellation actions.

Turkish Trademark Cancellation Procedures Clarified

Oktay Simsek — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:10:29 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has introduced significant amendments to the Regulation on the Implementation of the Industrial Property Law, bringing much-needed clarity to trademark cancellation procedures.

TÜRKPATENT and CNIPA Launch Accelerated Patent Examination Cooperation

Oktay Simsek — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:54:38 +0300

Overview

On 12 September 2024, the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) and the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) signed a Letter of Intent for Cooperation on Accelerated Patent Examination.

TÜRKPATENT announces new official fees effective January 1, 2025

Oktay Simsek — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:30:38 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has announced revised official fees applicable to patents, utility models, trademarks and industrial designs in Türkiye, effective as of January 1, 2025.

TÜRKPATENT announces updated trademark classification list

Oktay Simsek — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:08:00 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has revised the List of Goods and Services for trademark applications.

Turkish PTO (TÜRKPATENT) announced new official fees effective January 01, 2024

Oktay Simsek — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 15:33:00 +0300

TÜRKPATENT raises official fees for the second time in 2023, effective July 10, 2023

Oktay Simsek — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 14:01:26 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office announced a new schedule of official fees applicable to patents, trademarks, industrial designs and appeal procedures, effective as of 10 July 2023. This amendment represents the second increase in official intellectual property fees introduced in Türkiye during 2023.

Turkish industrial property statistics for 2022 announced

Oktay Simsek — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 22:34:57 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has published its industrial property statistics for 2022, revealing significant growth in domestic intellectual property filings across all major categories.

TÜRKPATENT announced new official fees effective January 01, 2023

Oktay Simsek — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 22:01:00 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has announced new official fees for patents, utility models, trademarks, and designs.

TÜRKPATENT Joins WIPO Digital Access Service for Electronic Exchange of Priority Documents

Oktay Simsek — Thu, 26 May 2022 16:11:49 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has joined the WIPO Digital Access Service (DAS) administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for the electronic exchange of certified priority documents.

Turkey joins the DesignClass system

Oktay Simsek — Mon, 23 May 2022 17:37:00 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) joined the DesignClass system of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on 23 May 2022. With its participation, TÜRKPATENT became the 15th non-European Union intellectual property office included in the DesignClass system.

TÜRKPATENT has updated its online registry database

Oktay Simsek — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 12:17:18 +0300

Overview

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has introduced important updates to its online trademark and industrial design registry databases, expanding the procedural information available to users and improving transparency in examination and opposition proceedings.

TÜRKPATENT released Turkish industrial property statistics of 2021

Oktay Simsek — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 11:26:19 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) 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.

Turkish PTO announced new official fees effective January 01, 2022

Oktay Simsek — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 13:32:05 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) announced new official fees for patents, utility models, trademarks and designs effective January 01, 2022.

TÜRKPATENT updated the trademark examination guideline

Oktay Simsek — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 12:22:04 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has updated its trademark examination guideline.

TÜRKPATENT takes measures to protect the personal data

Oktay Simsek — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 23:49:59 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has taken some measures to protect the personal data under the Law No. 6608 for the protection of the personal data .

TÜRKPATENT amended its procedure for change of name, address and company type

Oktay Simsek — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 23:29:56 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has made some procedural changes for recording changes of names, kinds and addresses of applicants and right holders as well as assigning customer numbers.

TÜRKPATENT releases data for 2020 for industrial property filings

Oktay Simsek — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:56:09 +0300

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 design applications compared to the previous year.

TÜRKPATENT announced fee changes effective January 01, 2021

Oktay Simsek — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 10:36:23 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) 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 .

TÜRKPATENT and EPO Integrate Databases for European Patent Validation Procedures

Oktay Simsek — Sat, 16 May 2020 22:35:23 +0300

Overview

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) announced that a web service integration has been established between the European Patent Office (EPO) and TÜRKPATENT for:

A high number of trademark applications associated with coronavirus recently filed in Turkey

Oktay Simsek — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 18:08:10 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has received a great number of trademark applications associated with “Covid-19” and “Coronavirus” in February and March 2020.

TÜRKPATENT made COVID-19 restrictions on its premises

Oktay Simsek — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:52:00 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has temporarily discontinued its information help desk and will not accept visitors on its premises due to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The stakeholders will be able to get information and response to their inquiries by calling call center of the Office.

Physical filing route for industrial property rights closed in Turkey

Oktay Simsek — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:53:38 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has recently announced it will close physical filing route for the industrial property rights (patents, trademarks, designs etc.). Accordingly, it will not be possible to physically (non-electronically) file the applications and post-filing demands as from January 01, 2020.

EPATS - New patent application system in Turkey

Oktay Simsek — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 15:19:22 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has introduced new online patent application system (EPATS ).

TÜRKPATENT updated the online patent search tool

Oktay Simsek — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 02:17:07 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has introduced a long-awaited update to its online patent search and file inspection system.

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office has published new examination guideline for trademarks

Oktay Simsek — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 03:06:49 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has published a new examination guideline for trademarks, titled “Trademark Examination Guideline.”

Use or non-use matter for patents in Turkey

Oktay Simsek — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:54:02 +0300

The period for using or working a patented invention is typically three years as from the publication of the patent grant in the Turkish Patent Bulletin or four years as from the application date of the patent, whichever is the later. This period is especially important in respect of the compulsory requests, as it is not possible for third parties to request compulsory license before the expiration of this statuary period.

Turkish IP System has become more modern by new amendments

Oktay Simsek — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 04:15:00 +0300

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.

New practice for search and examination requests announced by TÜRKPATENT

Oktay Simsek — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 16:20:00 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) 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.

TÜRKPATENT has made substantive discounts on search and examination reports

Oktay Simsek — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:26:00 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has significantly discounted the official fees for search and examination reports in order to reduce patent and utility model registration costs.

TÜRKPATENT has reduced some of official fees up to 40%

Oktay Simsek — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:18:00 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) reduced some official fees up to 40%. New fees were published on September 05, 2018 in the Turkish Official fees.

TÜRKPATENT established a public company for commercialization of the IP rights

Oktay Simsek — Tue, 29 May 2018 11:46:00 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has established a public company for commercializing the industrial property rights, i.e. patents, utility models, trademarks, designs and geographical signs. The company is named “Turkish Industrial Property Valuation and Consulting Engineering Services Inc. (TÜRKSMD).”

Digital Transformation in TÜRKPATENT

Oktay Simsek — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:54:00 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has announced that “Digital Archive Project”, which was launched in 2015 to transfer approximately 65 million page documents in TÜRKPATENT’s archives to electronic media was completed as from the end of 2017.

Turkish inventions will be exhibited in Geneva

Oktay Simsek — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:44:00 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office is participating in the 46th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in Switzerland, from April 11th to April 15th, 2018, with three domestic inventors and their inventions. Various 1000 inventions of more than 700 participants from 45 countries will be introduced during the exhibition organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

TÜRKPATENT opened Patent Workshop for Students

Oktay Simsek — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:36:00 +0300

In cooperation with the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) and the General Directorate for Secondary Education of the Ministry of National Education, a new patent training unit named “Patent Workshop” has been established within the organizational structure of TÜRKPATENT to provide interactive patent education for secondary school and university students.

TÜRKPATENT has brought clarification regarding the search and preliminary examination fees

Oktay Simsek — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:33:00 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has announced that applicants filing international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) are required to pay the international search and preliminary examination fees in accordance with the PCT Fee Tables published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) when TÜRKPATENT is designated as the International Searching Authority (ISA) or the International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA).

Turkey's Research Authority Expanded the Scope of Patent Incentives

Oktay Simsek — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 11:52:00 +0300

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) have signed the protocol expanding Patent Support Programheld between both public institutions.

Turkey tops trademark filings in Europe in 2017

Oktay Simsek — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 11:19:00 +0300

Turkey tops trademark filings in Europe in 2017

Prof. Dr. Habib Asan, the President of Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT), has given an interview regarding the industrial property activities and statistics in 2017 to Turkey’s official news agency, Anadolu Agency (AA), on 26 January 2017.

TÜRKPATENT has released a revised version of its Strategy Document setting out its objectives for the next 5 years.

Oktay Simsek — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:24:00 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) is regularly preparing and releasing strategy documents setting out objectives and goals every five years.

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office has announced its performance goals for 2018

Oktay Simsek — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 09:12:00 +0300

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) conventionally announces its performance goals and objectives at the beginning of each year. TÜRKPATENT has released its Performance Document on 11 January 2018.

An Overview of IP Filings in Turkey Based On “World Intellectual Property Report – 2017” Published By WIPO

Oktay Simsek — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 17:01:00 +0300

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has recently published world-wide IP trends analysis based on filings and registrations in 2016. The analysis covers the figures of the national and regional filings and international filings of WIPO .

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has recently updated its online filing system

Oktay Simsek — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:49:00 +0300

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) has recently updated its online filing system by introducing several new electronic transaction options aimed at facilitating patent prosecution procedures and improving the efficiency of online services.

Patent Contest in Turkey

Oktay Simsek — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:42:00 +0300

Patent contest for university students to be organized for the first time by Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) is starting.

Exams for Turkish Patent and Trademark Attorney held on November 11, 2017

Oktay Simsek — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 16:29:00 +0300

Qualification examinations for becoming a Turkish patent attorney or trademark attorney were held on 11 November 2017 under the supervision of the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT).

Seminar of Patenting Practice in the Field of Medical Devices

Oktay Simsek — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:03:00 +0300

The “Seminar on Patenting Practice in the Field of Medical Devices” will be held on 22–23 November 2017 by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) in cooperation with the European Patent Office (EPO).