Mutlu Yıldırım Köse

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

• Intellectual Property
• Trademarks and Designs
• Copyrights
• IP Prosecution

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?
  ManagingIP, Co-Author, 22 November 2023
• Turkey's Position on Non-Fungible Tokens
  ILO - Litigation Newsletter, Co-Author, 19 September 2023
• Dilution of Well-known Mark and Applicant’s Bad Faith: PTO Issues Exemplary Decision
  WTR, Co-Author, 13 September 2023
• PTO Confirms Similarity of Virtual and Physical Goods in Landmark Decision
  WTR, Co-Author, 28 July 2023
• Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights - 2nd Edition
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 01 June 2023
• Non-Fungible Tokens (“NFTs”) and Copyright Law
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 21 April 2023
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Copyright
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 20 April 2023
• What’s New In The Amended E-Commerce Law For IP
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 19 April 2023
• Publishing Rights in Online Use
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 18 April 2023
• Creative and Innovative Women on the Stage on World Intellectual Property Day!
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 17 April 2023
• Turkish Court of Cassation Rules in CERAN v CERAMO Case
  Marques - Class 46, Co-Author, 06 April 2023
• Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Trademarks
  Gün + Partners, Co-Author, 06 April 2023
• Court of Cassation Overturns Longstanding Precedents on Cumulative Protection Afforded by Trademark Infringement and Unfair Competition Provisions
  WTR, Co-Author, 21 March 2023
• New e-commerce Regulation Sets Out Details of Takedown Procedure For Infringing Content
  WTR, Co-Author, 23 January 2023
• A First for Turkey as Court Decides Preliminary Injunctions Can Apply to NFTs
  INTA Bulletin, Co-Author, 15 November 2022

Associations

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

• The Association of European Trade Mark Owners (MARQUES), Anti-Counterfeiting and Parallel Trade Team

• 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