The Advertisement Board (“Board”), during their meeting dated 12 March 2024 and numbered 343, examined websites that require membership as a pre-condition for making purchase on the website. As part of this examination, the Board assessed whether any additional personal data, beyond the mandatory and necessary information for the purchase process, was requested from consumers, whether the conditions for unsubscribing were more difficult compared to the methods specified for…
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Article 26 of the Industrial Property Code, granting the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (“the Office”) the authority to revoke trademarks, came into force on January 10, 2024.
Fourteen months after the entry into force of the administrative revocation of trademarks, the Office published a regulation amending the regulation on the implementation of the administrative revocation of trademarks.
Background
With the entry into force of the Industrial Property Code no. 6769…
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The Regulation Amending the Insurance Agencies Regulation (the “Amendment Regulation”) was published in the Official Gazette on January 22, 2025, and has entered into force on the same date.
The Regulation, which introduces significant provisions for insurance agencies, includes noteworthy updates particularly regarding minimum capital requirements, technical personnel qualifications, and operational obligations. The key highlights of the Amendment Regulation are as…
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According to the first paragraph of Article 5 of the Communiqué on Share Buybacks No. II-22.1 (the “Communiqué”), a share buyback program can only be approved by a general assembly resolution. However, an exception to this rule is provided in the fourth paragraph of the same article, which states that a share buyback program may also be approved by a board of directors resolution without the need for a general assembly resolution, in order to avoid an imminent and serious…
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At the end of 2024, Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (“the Office”) made a significant move by publishing a revised communiqué on the classification of goods and services for trade mark registration applications. The changes, which came into effect following their publication in the Official Gazette on 20 December 2024, align the Turkish classification system with the latest updates made to the Nice Classification. These revisions aim to make the trade mark application…
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In trademark law, the existence of distinctive character is one of the main criteria for the registration of a trademark, and the overall impression of the trademarks and the elements they contain should be examined in detail when evaluating the likelihood of confusion between trademarks. In cases conducted by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (“EUIPO”), it is mentioned that, in addition to the distinctive elements of a trademark, the low distinctive elements…
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