ChatGPT is a chatbot that was developed and trained by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. Since the first day of launching, ChatGPT quickly garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge. Many have had long conversations with ChatGPT, software engineers became obsessed with asking hard-to-solve questions and even […]

As already known by IP-agents, trademark preliminary research is essential for IP-owners as it helps to determine the availability and registerability of a trademark. Preliminary research can help avoid costly legal processes and disputes by ensuring that the chosen trademark does not overlap with any earlier trademarks or intellectual property rights. Preliminary research can also […]

Everyone desires a smooth process of registration for their intellectual property especially when it comes to the registration of their trademark in foreign countries. According to third parties, it is the other way around. In this article, our subject is relative grounds of oppositions and how to respond to them.   Oppositions are filed within […]

Bien is one of the building industry’s prominent players in both Turkey and abroad, commanding attention with its innovative identity in design and its green approach and respect for nature. We had a pleasant chat with Bien’s R&D manager, product designer, and inventor Metin Murat Elbeyli on the company’s extraordinary marketing expansion and investment process in recent […]

Click here to view the first part or the second part here… On October 29, 1923, the assembly declared Turkey to be a republic and elected Mustafa Kemal as its first president. In this post you  will find some of the first registered Trademarks of the Republic of Turkey:     GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION Register […]

A snowflake is unique. None of the snowflakes out of millions of snowflakes are the same. Unique ideas are just like snowflakes. Sometimes just like snowflakes, these ideas travel from a very long distance, And sometimes they just show up suddenly from past accumulations. Ideas that are born to the world should be protected. Yetkin […]

On the 25th anniversary of the establishment of Yetkin Patent & Consultancy, a mini-interview with Turgay Sagdic, the founder of Yetkin Patent & Consultancy, European Patent Attorney, Certified Public Accountant.   How did your journey to qualifying as a European Patent Attorney begin? Before starting my freelance work life, I made the application to register […]

Second part of the article compiled by our General Manager Belgin Sagdic, Trademark and Patent Attorney, Geographical Indications Specialist, was included in the book “GI-Registered Goods” that was published following the II. International Geographical Indications Summit organized by the Ankara Chamber of Commerce on 19 September 2019. To read the first part please click HERE. […]

  This article compiled by our General Manager Belgin Sagdic, Trademark and Patent Attorney, Geographical Indications Specialist, was included in the book “GI-Registered Goods” that was published following the II. International Geographical Indications Summit organized by the Ankara Chamber of Commerce on 19 September 2019. This first section of the article touches upon the definition […]

You can view the first part of this post by clicking here.   On October 29, 1923, the assembly declared Turkey to be a republic and elected Mustafa Kemal as its first president. In this post you  will find some of the first registered Trademarks of the Republic of Turkey:     ROVER Register book […]

Işıl Sırakaya tells us that she was 24 years old when she was appointed as judge to the Çamlıhemşin district of Rize in 1980, at a time female judges were rare, adding that she was also the first female judge at the municipality. Explaining that she was a judge at the Supreme Court of Appeals […]

In the late 1800s, the development of production and marketing in the industrialized world necessitated the separation of similar products with some distinctive signs or symbols. The Ottoman Empire followed closely the contemporary European countries and made the necessary legal arrangements and organized the branding and trademark registration in a certain system. The first regulation […]

Geographical Indication registrations in Turkey have increased in recent years. What is the reason for it? The purpose of the geographical indication is to contribute to rural development. Since a geographical indication is an indication that a product is produced by traditional methods or that an agricultural product bears the unique characteristics of that region, […]

All YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE “DECLARATION OF USE OR NON-USE” IN TURKEY The requirement of use is regulated by Article 130/2 of the Turkish Patent Act (“TPA”). Under the article, the statutory period for using a patent is three years from the publication of the decision granting the relevant patent or four years […]

It has been 15 years since you have started to work as a Patent and Trademark Attorney, what kind of developments did you observe in the Intellectual Property field in these 15 years? There is a significant awareness regarding obtaining and protection of Intellectual Property rights. Moreover, this system that is being enforced by the […]