Berrin Dinçer Özbey
Managing Associate
+ 90 (212) 354 00 27
berrin.dincer@gun.av.tr
Bar Admissions:
Istanbul Bar Association
Languages:
English, Turkish
Expertise
Berrin Dinçer is a managing associate in Gün + Partners and she has been working for the firm since 2010. Berrin has been specialized on trademark, design, copyright, patent and utility models as well as unfair competition.
She has been involved and took responsibility in a number of advisory and litigation services on all fields of IP law. She handled hundreds of both contentious and non-contentious administrative oppositions and litigations involving trademarks, patents, copyrights and industrial designs.
Berrin has been working IP matters, assisting the clients in structuring their strategy and providing them with legal opinion on a continuous basis. She represents multinational clients from numerous business areas including food and beverage, fashion, cosmetics, textile, electronics, entertainment, hotel and tourism, media and entertainment, pharmaceuticals, radio and TV broadcasting, telecoms, tobacco on all aspects of Intellectual Property and regulatory matters.
She also works in IP enforcement where supervises oppositions and appeals regarding trademark and design applications before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office and handles management of clients’ works both at opposition and litigation phases.
Publications
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Court of Appeals Finds Likelihood of Confusion Between Short Marks in Surprising Decision
WTR, Co-Author, 20.01.2021 -
Determining Similarity of Goods and Services in Trademark Opposition Proceedings
ManagingIP, Co-Author, 28.10.2020 -
Trademarks with High Distinctiveness in Bad Faith Assessment
ManagingIP, Co-Author, 17.04.2020 -
Keyword-Based Searches in Trademarks Law
Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 06.04.2020 -
CJEU Declares the Criteria to be Considered in Determination of Bad Faith
Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 24.01.2020 -
Cross-border IP Right Licences 2020 in Turkey
Practical Law, Co-Author, 07.02.2020 -
Damages Awards in IP Right Infringement Cases
Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 06.03.2019 -
Registration No Longer Constitutes Legitimate Use Defence in Turkey
Managing IP – International Briefings, Co-Author, 13.07.2018 -
Ankara District Court: Cancellation of Several Board Decisions May be Requested in Single Action
WTR, Co-Author, 05.04.2017 -
Turkey Protects 3D Marks, Colours and Sounds
Intellectual Property Magazine, Co-Author, 29.03.2017 -
Court Clarifies Meaning of ‘Identical’ and ‘Indistinguishably Similar’ Under Article 7/1(b)
WTR, Co-Author, 19.06.2015 -
Filing of several Applications Similar to Well-known Mark May Indicate Bad Faith
WTR Legal Updates/ WTR Daily, Co-Author, 31.07.2013
Speaking Engagements
Intellectual Property Law CJEU Decision Review - I: Sky v SkyKick (C-371/18), Gün + Partners Webinar, Speaker, 22.10.2020
Turkish laws related to property rights in scientific work and engineering, Middle East Technical University Seminar, Speaker, Ankara, Turkey, May 15, 2019.
Legal Protection of Designs, Design Week Turkey – Design Talks, Speaker, Istanbul, Turkey, 16.11.2018
Patent and Trademark Law Applications in the scope of SME No. 6769, Hukuk Akademisi seminar, Instructor, Istanbul, Turkey, June 02, 2018
Associations
- European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA)
- Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle Turkey (AIPPI Turkey)
- Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI), Piracy and Counterfeiting Committee
Education
- 2010, Ankara University, Faculty of Law, Ankara LL.B.
- 2005, Ankara Ayrancı Anatolian High School, Ankara