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An IP court has accepted the discovery of evidence demand made by an originator company against a generic pharmaceutical company after the court’s expert panel confirmed that patent infringement had occurred, but has then rejected the originator’s request for a preliminary injunction due to the so-called ‘Bolar’ exemption.
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An originator company filed a discovery of evidence request with a preliminary injunction demand against a generic company that…
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Dicle Doğan and Fatma Sevde Tan, Gun & Partners
On 11 June 2020, the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency published new guidelines (Turkish language) on scientific meetings and educational activities regarding medical devices.
The guidelines, which were updated by an amendment made on 27 April 2020, state that in terms of scientific web-based meetings, only meetings that last more than one day should be notified. This is further to the existing rules, which do not…
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Artificial intelligence (AI), which does not yet have a solid definition, can generally be described as “the ability of a digital computer or computer controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings.” AI systems have started to play a part in our daily life and today they carry out crucial roles for human beings. For instance, BlueDot’s AI system was among the first in the world to identify the emerging risk from COVID-19.
AI also creates music…
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On 19 March 2020, in accordance with general social distancing precautions established by the Turkish government as a result of COVID-19, the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency prohibited product promotion representatives from making physical visits, allowing promotional activities of product promotion representatives to take place only via electronical means.
However, due to the "normalization process" in Turkey that has begun due to the decreasing number of new COVID-19…
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With two very recent Presidential Decrees[1] published in the Official Gazette dated 30 June 2020 and numbered 31171, the terms of termination prohibition and unilateral unpaid leave, which were to expire by 17 July 2020, have been extended until 17 August 2020, and the term set out for the short-time working allowance granted in scope of COVID-19 has been extended for one month.
Extension of the term of termination prohibition and unilateral unpaid leave
With the…
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Influencer marketing through social media influencers has reached to giant growth in advertising area. Brands including global and local ones cooperate with social media influencers for advertisings of their brands, goods and services because social media influencers are very capable of directing the consumers’ buying habits into certain brands via the presentations, recommendations and compliments they make.
In Turkey, there are no specific laws relating to advertising…
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