E-health services are proving increasingly popular; but many questions remain to be answered before their use becomes mainstream, including in relation to their scope, safety and regulation.
Scope and aim
The World Health Organisation has defined ‘e-health’ as the provision of health resources and healthcare through electronic means. The objectives of e-health services are to increase the efficiency of healthcare services by reducing costs and saving time.
In this regard, the…
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Introduction
In February 2014 Minister of Health Mehmet Müezzinoğlu made the following announcement:
“We aim to show the brand value of health in Turkey to the neighbouring region comprising a population of 1 billion; and increase healthcare tourism revenue from $2.5 billion to $10 billion in the next five years. Here we hope to succeed in establishing centres providing healthcare services to the people of our country and to our future by combining intelligence capital…
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The main legislation in Turkey applying to information broadcast and published online is the Law numbered 5651 on the Regulation of Broadcasts and Publications Made Online and Regarding the Countering of Crimes Committed via These Broadcasts and Publications (Internet Publication Law) which came into effect upon publication on May 23, 2007. The Internet Publication Law introduced procedures for applying blocking orders to Internet Web sites that included content that…
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Turkey adopted the World Intellectual Property Organization’s(WI PO) international registration system in 1999. Ugur Aktekin and Pinar Arikan in Istanbul examine the successes and failures of the sys-tem since its implementation 15 years ago.
Historically, the protection of trademark rights has been dependent upon territorial registration. International brands and businesses have obliged to protect their trademark rights on an individual country- by-country basis, registering…
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The Turkish Court of Appeals has reiterated its established precedent that the examination of confusing similarity must take into account the overall impression conveyed by the trademarks to the relevant public.
In December 2007 Ital Food Industry AD filed a trademark application with the Turkish Patent Institute (TPI) for the sign reproduced below in Class 30 of the Nice Classification. The mark consisted of words in both Latin and Cyrillic characters.
Turkish company Eti…
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In August 2010, PC DESIGN SARL filed an application no. 2010/52790 for “cubano original eau de toilette natural spray + device” before the TPI for the goods specified in classes 03 and 33.
HAVANA CLUB HOLDING S.A. (“HAVANA CLUB”) filed an opposition against the application on the grounds that the application is not registrable in accordance with Article 7/1 (c) of Decree Law, given that “it was not distinctive in the commercial industry, designated geographical origin and…
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