Aysel Korkmaz Yatkın

Expertise

Aysel Korkmaz Yatkın joined the firm in 2008 and became a partner in 2020. She specializes in intellectual property with a special focus on patents and utility models; insurance and reinsurance; dispute management and business crimes and anti-corruption practices.

With almost 15-years of experience on patents, she has been providing consultancy on all matters related to the patent law and has been leading numerous patent actions. With a vast advisory and litigation expertise particularly with regards to protection of patent rights, Aysel Korkmaz Yatkın also represents various pharmaceutical companies before the Ministry of Health in relation to the regulatory matters and gives support to these companies on regulatory matters during the audits conducted before the Ministry of Health.

She supervises the team in relation to strategy and policy setting issues, for comprehensive and complex mandates related to the insurance disputes and negotiates the settlement assessment. She has been providing consultancy on all matters and has been leading numerous commercial disputes with a vast advisory and litigation expertise particularly with regards to compensation actions, unfair competition claims, preliminary injunction, and enforcement of the preliminary injunctions. She has significant experience helping clients achieve positive outcomes across a variety of industries and sectors.

Practice Areas

• Intellectual Property
• Patents and Utility Models
• Insurance and Reinsurance
• Dispute Management
• Business Crimes and Anti-Corruption
• Employment

Speaking Engagements

World IP Day - Access to Medicine, Compulsory Licensing and Protection of Patent Rights, Gün + Partners Webinar, Speaker, Istanbul, 10.05.2022

Agent Inventions, AIPPI Turkey - Online Seminar Series, Speaker, 05.05.2021

Compensation Lawsuits For Alleged Injustice In Pharmaceutical Sector, Gün + Partners, Speaker, 02.12.2020

Guarantee Amounts for Preliminary Injunction Decisions in Patent Litigation, AIPPI Turkey – Current Developments on Intellectual Property Practice Seminar, Speaker, Istanbul, Turkey, 06.12.2019

Law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association - Patent Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Istanbul, Turkey, 29.10.2019

Law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association - Patent Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Istanbul, Turkey, 06.10.2019

Employee Inventions, Model Court of Justice 2019, Speaker, Ankara, Turkey, 10.02.2019

Ex-parte Preliminary Injunction (Case study), Taylor Wessing - Europeans Patent Forum, Speaker, Munich, Germany, 11.10.2018

Patent and Trademark Law Applications in the scope of SME No. 6769, Hukuk Akademisi seminar, Instructor, Istanbul, Turkey, 02.06.2018

Patent protection in pharmaceutical product and second medical use claims, relationship between patent and marketing authorization, and cases, DETTO InventUP Health Program, Speaker, Izmir, Turkey, 16.01.2018

Turkey’s New Industrial Property Code (no:6769), Gün + Partners Seminar, Speaker, Istanbul, Turkey, 10.02.2017

Publications

• The Insurance and Reinsurance Law Review, 11th Edition, Turkey Chapter
  The Law Reviews, Co-Author, 24 August 2023
• Regulation Amending the Regulation on Insurance Arbitration Has Been Published
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 19 June 2023
• Insurance Litigation 2023 in Turkey
  GTDT , Co-Author, 01 March 2023
• Unified Patent Court - How It Will Resonate in Turkey?
  ManagingIP, Co-Author, 01 March 2023
• “Plausibility” in Turkish Patent Law and Its Impact on Invalidation Proceedings
  ManagingIP, Co-Author, 28 February 2023
• The Need for an Injunction in Cases Where the EPO Proceeding is a Pending Issue
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 27 February 2023
• Preliminary Injunction Decisions against Patent Trolls to Prevent the Enforcement of Patent Rights
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 26 February 2023
• Current Practice of Bolar Exemption in Turkish Patent Law
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 25 February 2023
• REGIONAL COURT OF APPEALS: The Decision of the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency of Refusal of the Applications of the Original Medicine Owners to Obtain Information on Reference Product is Unlawful
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 24 February 2023
• Cyber Insurance and Insuring NFTs
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 21 February 2023
• Determination of Evidence in Disputes Over Pharmaceutical Patents
  ILO - Litigation Newsletter, Co-Author, 24 January 2023
• What The Plausibility Requirement Means For Turkish IP Law
  IAM - International Report, Co-Author, 10 January 2023
• State Council’s Decision on the Rules and Procedures Regarding Experts at Insurance Arbitration Commission
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 26 December 2022
• The Dangers of Basing Preliminary Injunctions on Determination of Evidence
  IAM - International Report, Co-Author, 22 November 2022
• A Milestone Decision on the Patentability of Second Medical Use Claims
  Kluwer Patent Blog, Co-Author, 16 August 2022

Associations

• International Bar Association (IBA)

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

• Better Justice Association

Education

• 2007, International Commercial and Business Law, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England (Degree of Master of Law)
• 2004, Faculty of Law, Yeditepe University, Istanbul LL.B.
• 1999, Akyurt Health High School, Ankara