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Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (“TPTO”) published “Guidelines on Employee Inventions and Inventions Made in Higher Education Institutions” (“Guidelines”) on its website by virtue of Industrial Property Law numbered 6769 (“IPL”) and Regulations on Employee Inventions and Inventions Made […]

1. What is the forum for the conduct of patent litigation? All patent cases are handled by the specialised Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights Civil Courts (“IP Courts”), which only exist in Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir. In other cities, […]

Turkish Constitutional Court (“TCC”) recently evaluated and dismissed Izmir 1st Criminal Court of Intellectual and Industrial Rights’ (“Applicant”) application for the abolishment of some articles of the Law on Experts, Law of Judges and Prosecutors, and Code of Criminal […]

The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has examined the Italian balsamic vinegar manufacturer Consorzio Tutela Aceto Balsamico di Modena’s (“Consorzio”) request against German manufacturer Balema GmbH (“Balema”). Consorzio claimed that Balema’s use of “balsamico” expression on product labels extends […]

Turkey’s Ministry of Industry and Technology has published the Communiqué Amending the Communiqué on Application Principles of Technology-Oriented Industrial Movements Program (“Communiqué”). The amendments made within this scope can be summarized as follows: The cost of the independent evaluation […]

The Regulation Amending the Regulation on Commercial Advertisement and Unfair Commercial Practices (“Amendment Regulation”) was published in Official Gazette number 30916 on 12 October 2019. The Amendment Regulation revises and clarifies certain articles of the Regulation on Commercial Advertisement […]

The Turkish Trademark and Patent Office (“TPTO”) has published the new Trademark Examination Guideline regarding the examination of the absolute grounds based on article 5 of Industrial Property Law numbered 6769 (“IPL”). The new guideline updates the previous one […]

Turkey has introduced The Regulation on Registration, Production, and Marketing of Local Varieties (“Regulation”) aiming to protect field crops, vineyard/garden plants and other plant varieties and to prevent genetic erosion for those. The new Regulation outlines procedures and principles […]

Turkish Competition Board (“Board”) decided to conduct an investigation to Turkish Pharmacists’ Association for violation of article 4 (restrictive trade practices and concerted practices) of the Law number 4054 on the Protection of Competition (“Law”). As a result of […]

As stated in our previous article, Turkey introduced new plain packaging rules for tobacco with the Regulation on Methods and Procedures for Manufacturing, Labelling and Control of Tobacco Products (the “Regulation”) published in Official Gazette number 30701 on 1 […]