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The establishment of the Unified Patent Court (“UPC”) is a subject that currently occupies the agenda of patent systems in Europe. Seventeen members of the European Union (“EU”) have signed the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on 20.06.2013 […]

 1. Intellectual Property Rights and Granting Procedure  1.1 Types of Intellectual Property Rights The Turkish legal system provides for “patents” and “utility models” for the protection of inventions. Both of these forms of protection are based on statutory law, […]