Intellectual & Industrial Property Law

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Trademark

Preparation, filing, and follow-up of national, overseas, international, and regional trademark registration applications; filing objections against applications published in trademark bulletins; conducting defense and objection processes against rejection decisions at the offices; preparing and following up on administrative cancellation requests; conducting national and international trademark similarity searches and risk assessments.

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Patent/Utility Model

Our services include preparing patent and utility model specifications in Turkish and English, filing and monitoring national, international, and overseas applications, conducting patent and technology research, monitoring studies, and patentability assessments, managing validation processes for European patents to gain validity in Turkey; preparing high-quality Turkish translations under the supervision of our translators and patent attorneys, and submitting relevant application documents to the office.

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Industrial Design

Preparing, filing, and monitoring design registration applications at national and international levels; determining the application strategy; establishing the appropriate scope of protection; managing post-application procedures; and handling transactions with relevant offices.

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Geographical Indications

Preparation, filing, registration, objection, and monitoring of geographical indication and traditional product name applications.

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Plant Breeder's Rights (PBR/PVR)

Preparing and filing breeder's rights registration applications for new plant varieties with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, monitoring the application process, overseeing the DUS (distinctiveness, uniformity, and stability) testing processes, obtaining the relevant report from the overseas office for varieties whose DUS process has been completed abroad and whose DUS report is ready, and managing the follow-up and payment of annual fees after registration.

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Custom Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

Preparing and filing customs protection applications for intellectual property rights with the Ministry of Trade, monitoring protection processes after application, keeping ownership information up-to-date, and ensuring timely annual renewal and continuation processes.

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Domain Names

Providing consultancy services for preparing domain name registration applications, determining appropriate domain name strategies, monitoring application and allocation processes, conducting domain name searches, and creating a protection structure compatible with the brand portfolio.

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Creation and Copyrights

Providing comprehensive support to authors, content creators, agencies, software developers, media companies, and rights holders in establishing the legal framework for copyright protection; preparing and revising contracts related to the transfer, licensing, terms of use, and third-party use of financial rights to the work; designing contract structures suitable for co-production, commissioned works, content creation, and digital usage models; and also preparing, filing, and monitoring the application process for optional registration applications.

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Media and Film Law

Providing comprehensive legal advice regarding copyright, related rights, and contractual relationships arising from films, television series, documentaries, commercials, digital content, and other audiovisual projects; drafting and negotiating production, co-production, director, screenwriter, actor, content licensing, and usage contracts; determining the ownership structure; legally structuring the transfer, licensing, and usage permissions of financial rights; and providing support in the processes of using, re-broadcasting, and transferring content to different media and digital platforms.

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License, Transfer, and Other Intellectual and Industrial Property Law Agreements

Providing legal consultancy on the preparation, negotiation, and revision of licensing, transfer, co-existence, usage authorization, and similar agreements related to trademarks, patents, designs, and other intellectual and industrial property rights; structuring contractual frameworks appropriate to the nature of the commercial relationship between the parties; ensuring legally secure regulation of critical aspects such as scope of rights, geographical limitations, duration, exclusivity, sublicensing, fee, confidentiality, and infringement provisions; managing application and follow-up processes for registration of licensing and transfer transactions with the relevant national patent and trademark offices; contributing to the establishment of a legal communication infrastructure between inventors, investors, companies, and technology developers for the commercialization of intellectual property rights; creating contractual structures, structuring rights transfer and usage models, and coordinating transaction processes in the process of converting inventions, technologies, and intellectual property portfolios into economic value.

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Intellectual Property Disputes

Providing comprehensive legal consultancy and dispute management services in disputes arising from trademarks, patents, designs, copyrights, geographical indications, and other intellectual and industrial property rights; representing clients before administrative authorities and judicial bodies in processes such as infringement, invalidation, cancellation, prevention of infringement, cessation of interference, unfair competition, compensation, and evidence gathering; developing protection and defense strategies appropriate to the nature of the dispute.

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Intellectual and Industrial Property Lawsuits

Providing comprehensive representation and consultancy in litigation arising from trademarks, patents, utility models, designs, copyrights, geographical indications, domain names, and other intellectual and industrial property rights; managing processes related to infringement, invalidation, cancellation, prevention of infringement, unfair competition, pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages, assignment of profits, evidence gathering, and preliminary injunction requests; and holistically managing the process at every stage, from pre-litigation legal assessment, warning, and settlement to first instance and appeal stages.

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Intellectual and Industrial Property Consultancy

Intellectual Property Portfolio Management:
Centralized monitoring, renewal, tracking, annual fee and usage declaration processes for trademark, patent, utility model and design portfolios; monitoring competitor applications and registrations; completing address, title and type change transactions, as well as transfer, merger and license registrations with the relevant offices, keeping registry records up-to-date; managing protection-related processes at international fairs; providing use/non-use determination services for all industrial property rights.

Legal Opinion:
Providing legal consultancy in intellectual property disputes, including infringement, non-use, invalidation and cancellation processes; representing clients against publications and office decisions; preparing technical opinions and views for use in litigation processes; conducting intellectual and industrial property studies within the framework of due diligence reports.

Freedom to Operate and Infringement Analysis Reports:
Conducting similarity searches through patent databases for newly developed products, preparing freedom to operate reports, and carrying out infringement risk analyses in terms of patent and design rights.

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