Expertise
Mutlu Yıldırım Köse has been with the firm since 2006 and a partner since 2017. Mutlu is both a lawyer and trademark and patent attorney specializing in intellectual property practice. Her IP practice focuses on trademarks, designs and copyrights.
She has been involved in numerous projects on all fields of IP. Her involvement includes both contentious and non-contentious matters in relation to trademarks, copyrights, designs, patents, domain names and unfair competition. She has an extensive litigation experience, counselled various domestic and foreign clients regarding their IP strategies, legal disputes, licensing and settlement agreements.
She also works in IP prosecution where supervises and drafts oppositions and appeals regarding trademark and design applications before the Turkish patent and trademark office.
She represents foreign, multinational and Turkish clients from numerous business areas including electronics, fashion, cosmetics, textile, entertainment, hotel and tourism, media and entertainment, pharmaceuticals, radio and TV broadcasting, telecoms on all aspects of intellectual property and regulatory matters.
Practice Areas
Speaking Engagements
World IP Day - Conversation on Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity, Gün + Partners Webinar, Moderator, 27.04.2023
Turkish Legal Artificial Intelligence Webinar Series, Recent Developments in Industrial Property and Copyrights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Better Judiciary Association Webinar, 15.06.2022
Trademark Law in Turkey Key Developments and Predictions 2022, Gün + Partners Webinar, Speaker, Istanbul, Turkey, 03.06.2022
ABAD Decision Review - II: Brompton Bicycle Ltd v Chedech / Get2Get (C-833/18) Decision, Gün + Partners Webinar, Speaker, 16.12.2020
Artificial Intelligence and Copyright, ELSA Ankara - Legaltech/Fintech/Regtech Group, Speaker, 06.12.2020
Trademark Protection in Europe during the COVID 19 Asia and Pacific Session, Gün + Partners Webinar, Speaker, 19.06.2020
Trademark Protection in Europe During COVID-19, Gün + Partners Webinar, Speaker, 16.06.2020
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
Fair Use in Copyright,Model Courts of Justice 2020, Keynote Speaker, Ankara, Turkey, 19.02.2020
EU Copyright Reform and Implications for Turkish law, Gün + Partners – World IP Day, Panellist, Istanbul, Turkey, 26.04.2019
European Union Commission's Copyright Directive in the Digital Single Market, TRT Radio 1 – “Gün Ötesi” Program, Speaker, Istanbul, Turkey, 16.04.2019
Turkey’s New Industrial Property Code (No. 6769), Gün + Partners Seminar, Speaker, Istanbul, Turkey, 10.02.2017
Madrid Protocol & Turkey, Istanbul University, Speaker, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014
Publications
- Can Trade Names Lead to Trademark Infrıngement in Turkey?
- Turkey's Position on Non-Fungible Tokens
- Dilution of Well-known Mark and Applicant’s Bad Faith: PTO Issues Exemplary Decision
- PTO Confirms Similarity of Virtual and Physical Goods in Landmark Decision
- Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights - 2nd Edition
- Non-Fungible Tokens (“NFTs”) and Copyright Law
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Copyright
- What’s New In The Amended E-Commerce Law For IP
- Publishing Rights in Online Use
- Creative and Innovative Women on the Stage on World Intellectual Property Day!
- Turkish Court of Cassation Rules in CERAN v CERAMO Case
- Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Trademarks
- Court of Cassation Overturns Longstanding Precedents on Cumulative Protection Afforded by Trademark Infringement and Unfair Competition Provisions
- New e-commerce Regulation Sets Out Details of Takedown Procedure For Infringing Content
- A First for Turkey as Court Decides Preliminary Injunctions Can Apply to NFTs
Associations
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Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)
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The Association of European Trade Mark Owners (MARQUES), Anti-Counterfeiting and Parallel Trade Team
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The Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA)
Education
- 2010, Social Siciences Institute, Istanbul University, Istanbul LLM
- 2006, Faculty of Law, Istanbul University, Istanbul LL.B.
- 2002, Vefa Anatolian High School, Istanbul