Introduction
On June 19 2015 the 15th Chamber of the Council of State stayed the execution of the Directive on the Working Principles and Rules of Procedure of the Reimbursement Commission (July 3 2014). However, the Social Security Institute had already repealed the directive approximately two months before the motion to stay its execution was granted and a new directive containing the repealed provisions in their entirety entered into force on April 30 2015.
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You are waiting in line, trying to decipher several different languages spoken around you: English, Dutch, German, Arabic, French… This scene is not from an airport but rather from a Turkish hospital: thousands of foreigners, communicating through translators, visit healthcare institutions every day and numbers are increasing exponentially; in the first six months of 2014, 162,445 medical tourists visited Turkey. This is only one of the results of the Health Transformation…
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In October 2014 the co-promotion of pharmaceutical products became a top priority for the pharmaceutical sector – including pharmaceutical companies, leading non-profit associations and their legal counsel – after the Ministry of Health sent letters to certain pharmaceutical companies.
Cancellation of co-promotion permissions
The letters stated that the ministry was cancelling co-promotion permissions which had previously been granted to the pharmaceutical companies and…
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Waiting in line, trying to decipher the different languages spoken around you: English, Dutch, German, Arabic, French… This scene is not from an airport but rather from a Turkish hospital: thousands of foreigners, communicating through translators, visit healthcare institutions every day. A quarter of a million foreign patients come to Turkey each year for medical treatment – and this number is increasing exponentially.
This is only one of the results of…
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In 2000 Turkey joined the European Patent Convention (EPC). Recently, the Istanbul IP Court, evaluating a patent infringement claim filed by the patentee of a ‘Swiss-type’ European patent, rejected the claim on the grounds that the patent was a “medical treatment method” which should not have been registered under Article 52(4) of the EPC 1972, and therefore was null and void.
Decision
The European patent at issue was registered by the European Patent Office (EPO) on…
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1. Copyright Subsistence
1.1 What are the requirements for copyright to subsist in a work?
The protection of copyrights is regulated under the Law of Literary and Artistic Works No. 5846 (Law No. 5846).
According to Law No. 5846, an intellectual or artistic creation is qualified as a ‘work’ subject to copyright protection if:
it is original, namely if it is the result of independent, creative effort by the author (this is a subjective condition); and
it falls under one of…
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