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, copyright, patents and utility models 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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Regulation on Intellectual Property Academy Enters Into Force
WTR, Author, 06.12.2019 -
EBAY Recorded As a Well-Known Trademark in Turkey
WTR, Co-Author, 30.10.2019 -
Patents, Trade Marks, Copyright and Designs 2019 in Turkey
Practical Law, Co-Author, 09.09.2019 -
Significant Amendments to the Regulation on the Implementation of the Industrial Property Code
WTR, Author, 09.08.2019 -
Enforcement: An International Litigation Guide, Turkey
INTA, Author, 03.07.2019 -
Non-Use Defence in Opposition Proceedings in Turkey
PTMG – Law Lore & Practice May 2019, Co-Author, 31.05.2019 -
Trademark Rights vs. Freedom of Expression: A Recent Decision of the Turkish Constitutional Court
WTR, Author, 11.04.2019 -
Imprisonment for Breaching Injunctions is Annulled by Constitutional Court
WTR, Author, 18.03.2019 -
Mediation now Mandatory for Monetary-related IP Disputes
WTR, Author, 16.01.2019 -
Court Rules on Protection of Well-Known Trade Mark
Managing IP – International Briefings, Co-Author, 26.10.2018 -
The Fashion Industry and New Provisions of Turkish Industrial Property Code Regarding Protection of Unregistered Design Rights
IBA – IP & Entertainment Law Committee Newsletter,, Co-Author, 10.10.2018 -
New Company Set to Boost IP Commercialisation
Managing IP – IP Stars, Co-Author, 10.10.2018 -
Turkish Court of Appeals Grants Protection to Well-Known ‘JELIBON’ Trade Mark Despite Its Original Lack of Distinctiveness
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 8, Author, 07.09.2018 -
International Registrations Subject to Disparate Treatment in Opposition Proceedings
INTA Bulettin Vol. 73 No. 14, Co-Author, 07.09.2018 -
Protection of Traditional Product Names under the New IP Code No. 6769
Lexis Middle East Law,, Co-Author, 15.09.2017 -
A new adventure for the intellectual property system in Turkey: IP Code No 6769
IBA Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Committee Update, VOLUME 9 ISSUE 1, Co-Author, 29.06.2017
Associations
- 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
Education
- 2011, European Law, Gazi University, Ankara LL.M.
- 2005, Faculty of Law, Galatasaray University, Istanbul LL.B.
- 2002, Faculty of Law, Panthéon-Assas University, Paris
- 2001, Charles de Gaulle French High School, Ankara