Pınar Arıkan

Expertise

Pınar Arıkan is the Director of the IP prosecution practice area in the firm. She has been working for the firm since 2004. She currently leads the IP prosecution team consisting of trademark and patent attorneys.

Within the trademark, patent, design and domain name matters, she has counselled a number of local and multi-national clients from diverse businesses on clearance searches, filing new applications and oppositions, developing and implementing prosecution strategies, managing the global IP portfolios of the clients and represented them before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (the Office).

She represents multinational clients from numerous business areas including food and beverage, fashion, cosmetics, textile, electronics, entertainment, hotel and tourism, media and entertainment, pharmaceuticals, radio and TV broadcasting, telecoms, tobacco on all aspects of Intellectual Property. She also supervises a network worldwide patent and trademark agents in relation to registration of trademarks of various Turkish companies abroad.

Pınar has been involved in various trademark assignment projects, assisted foreign and Turkish companies to negotiate the assignment conditions, drafted the deeds of assignment and signed in the name of the assignor/assignee and record the change in ownership before the Office.

Pınar has been worked on IP due diligence projects, assisting the clients in reviewing their global IP portfolio and restructuring it where necessary, and providing them opinion on developing IP registration strategy.

Pınar has broad experience in rebranding projects and assisted the clients in providing opinions regarding the registrability of the candidate marks and registering the chosen trademarks.

Practice Areas

• Intellectual Property
• IP Prosecution
• Trademarks and Designs

Publications

• New Turkish Domain Name System Creates a Situation in Need of Resolution
  ManagingIP, Co-Author, Apr 20, 2023
• A New Era in .Tr Extended Domain Names - and a New Issue Waiting for a Solution
  ManagingIP, Co-Author, Apr 05, 2023
• Turkish Patent and Trademark Office Updates Trademark Examination Guidelines
  WTR, Co-Author, Mar 09, 2022
• Turkish Country - Code Domain Name System on the Eve of a New Era
  WTR, Co-Author, Feb 02, 2022
• Madrid e-Filing Now Available to Applicants in Turkey
  WTR, Co-Author, Dec 15, 2021
• How to Protect Color Marks in Turkey
  INTA Bulletin, Author, Nov 02, 2021
• Cross-border IP Right Assignments 2021 in Turkey
  Practical Law, Co-Author, Apr 08, 2021
• A New Era for Domain Names Under the ‘.tr’ Extension
  WTR, Author, Nov 12, 2020
• COVID-19’s Impacts on Trademark Prosecution
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, Sep 16, 2020
• Turkey Withdraws Declaration Made Under Article 14(5) of Madrid Protocol
  WTR, Co-Author, Nov 29, 2019
• Patent and Trademark Office Issues New Guidelines for Examination of Trademark Applications
  WTR, Co-Author, Oct 30, 2019
• International Registrations Subject to Disparate Treatment in Opposition Proceedings
  INTA Bulettin Vol. 73 No. 14, Co-Author, Sep 07, 2018
• Letters of Consent Under the Turkish Industrial Property Code
  Managing IP – International Briefings, Co-Author, Apr 10, 2018
• TURKEY: Implementing Regulation of the New IP Code Enters into Force—Major Changes for Trademarks
  INTA Bulletin Vol. 72 No. 18, Co-Author, Oct 17, 2017
• Turkey is Welcoming The Long Awaited Industrial Property Code
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, Jan 10, 2017

Associations

• International Trademark Association (INTA), Chair of Nontraditional Trademarks Europe Subcommittee

• Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)

• Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle Turkey (AIPPI Turkey)

• Patent and Trademark Attorneys’ Association of Turkey (PEM)

Education

• 2004, International Trade, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
• 1999, Tuncay Azaphan Anadolu Ticaret Meslek Lisesi, Istanbul