Güldeniz Doğan Alkan
Partner
+ 90 (212) 354 00 24
guldeniz.dogan@gun.av.tr
Bar Admissions:
Ankara Bar Association
Languages:
English, Turkish, French, German
Practice Areas
Expertise
Güldeniz Doğan Alkan joined the firm in 2006 and has been a partner since 2017. Güldeniz is both lawyer and a trademark and patent attorney specializing in Intellectual Property law. She focuses on trademark and design, and copyright as well as unfair competition.
Güldeniz advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters including implementing IP protection and enforcement strategies, and represents clients before the Ankara IP courts (including actions against the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office) and represents clients before courts in cancellation, infringement and other types of action. She also works in IP enforcement where she supervises and drafts oppositions and appeals on trademark and design applications before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office.
She represents foreign, multinational and Turkish clients from numerous business sectors 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.
Publications
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V Versus V: Assessment of Similarity Between One-letter Trademarks
WTR, Co-Author, 20.09.2022 -
Recent Case Highlights Lack of Harmonisation Between Courts’ Approach and PTO’s Practice
WTR, Co-Author, 12.09.2022 -
Appeal Court Issues Significant Decision on Jurisdiction in Case of Online Infringement
WTR, Co-Author, 15.11.2021 -
Higher Board Decides in Favour of UGG Based on Well-known Trademark Status and Principle of Interdependence
WTR, Co-Author, 10.09.2021 -
Regional Court of Appeal Issues Controversial Reversal Decision
WTR, Co-Author, 08.06.2021 -
A Closer Look at the Turkish Court of Cassation’s Supervisory Power and Its Boundaries
ManagingIP, Co-Author, 22.04.2021 -
Implementation of Mandatory Mediation in IP Disputes: Court of Cassation Issues Contradictory Decisions
WTR, Co-Author, 17.03.2021 -
Enforcement: An International Litigation Guide 2020, Turkey
INTA, Co-Author, 17.03.2021 -
Does Likelihood of Confusion Exist Based on a Common Weak Element?
Oxford University Press - Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Co-Author, 22.02.2021 -
Patents, Trade Marks, Copyright and Designs 2020 in Turkey
Practical Law, Co-Author, 27.11.2020 -
Turkish Court of Appeal Rules on Abuse of the Right to Sue
Marques - Class 46, Co-Author, 13.10.2020 -
Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Grace Periods and Use Obligation Provided for Trademarks in Turkey
Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 24.09.2020 -
Turkish Court of Appeal Considers Mandatory Mediation Requirement in Disputes Containing Both Monetary and Nonmonetary Claims
WTR, Co-Author, 05.08.2020 -
Good News for Owners of IR Designations as Trademark Office Changes its Practice in Opposition Proceedings
WTR, Co-Author, 10.06.2020 -
Court of Appeal: Plaintiff Lost its Right to Claim Trademark Infringement Due to Silence
Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 12.05.2020
Speaking Engagements
Trademark Law in Turkey Key Developments and Predictions 2022, Gün + Partners Webinar, Speaker, Istanbul, Turkey, 03.06.2022
ABAD Decision Review - III: “Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini v. EUIPO - J-M.- E.V. e hijos, SRL ”decision, Gün + Partners Webinar, Moderator, 17.02.2021
Key Developments and Predictions for Trademark Law in Turkey - 2020 With a Focus on the Impacts of the COVID-19, Gün + Partners Webinar, Speaker, 18.05.2020
Law and Trademark law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association - Trademark Attorneyship 2nd level Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Ankara, Turkey, 04.01.2020
Law and IP law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association - Trademark Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Ankara, Turkey, 10.11.2019
Law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association – Patent Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Ankara, Turkey, 03.11.2019
Law and IP law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association – Trademark Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Istanbul, Turkey, 20.10.2019
Law and IP law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association – Trademark Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Istanbul, Turkey, 13.10.2019
Law and IP law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association – Trademark Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Ankara, Turkey, 29.09.2019
Law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association – Patent Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Ankara, Turkey, 15.09.2019
Recent EU Case Law and Turkish Court of Appeals Precedents on Trademark, Gün + Partners – World IP Day, Moderator, Istanbul, Turkey, 26.04.2019
Turkey’s New IP Code and Key Changes for Trademarks, Gün + Partners Seminar, Panellist, Istanbul, Turkey, 13.04.2018
Trademark Infringement under Turkish Law, Model Court of Justice 2018, Speaker, Ankara, Turkey, 09.02.2018
Turkey’s new Industrial Property Code (No. 6769), Gün + Partners Seminar, Speaker, Paris, France, 05.04.2017
Associations
- European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA), Member of Publication Committee
- Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)
- International Trademark Association (INTA)
- Patent and Trademark Attorneys’ Association of Turkey (PEM), Board Member
- Association of Trademark and Design Law Practitioners (APRAM)
- Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG)
- Intellectual Property and Competition Law Commission of Ankara Bar
- European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA)
- The Association of European Trade Mark Owners (MARQUES), Member of Designs Team
Education
- 2021, Faculty of Law, Paris II Panthéon-Assas University, Paris LL.B.
- 2013, Faculty of Business Administration, Anadolu University, Eskişehir MA
- 2011, European Law, Gazi University, Ankara LL.M.
- 2005, Faculty of Law, Galatasaray University, Istanbul LL.B.
- 2001, Charles de Gaulle French High School, Ankara