Expertise
Zeynep Çağla Üstün joined Gün + Partners in 2014 and currently works as a Managing Associate. Zeynep specializes in life sciences, medical devices, healthcare law, and intellectual property, with a particular focus on patents, utility models, and trademarks.
Zeynep represents clients before the Civil Courts for Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights in all types of IP-related disputes, particularly those concerning patents, utility models, and trademarks. Her expertise includes infringement actions, preliminary injunction requests, and invalidation proceedings.
She provides strategic advice on complex patent disputes with international dimensions, leveraging her experience in both patent law and administrative law. She develops enforcement strategies and offers regulatory guidance, particularly in matters involving pharmaceutical and healthcare regulations.
Zeynep also represents clients in regulatory reviews of marketing authorization dossiers before the Ministry of Health in patent-related disputes. In addition to her legal practice, she serves as the President of the Intellectual Property and Competition Law Board at the Ankara Bar Association.
Areas of Expertise
Speaking Engagements
Patent Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training - Law, Association of Patent and Trademark Attorneys, Instructor, Istanbul, 10.09.2023
Patent Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training - Law, Association of Patent and Trademark Attorneys, Instructor, Istanbul, 19.06.2023
Intellectual Property Law CJEU Decision Review – IV: Coty v. Online Counterfeit Product Sales in the Light of Amazon's Decision, Gün + Partners Webinar, Speaker, 28.04.2021
The Price Given to the Employee Making Inventions in Turkey: WORK, STRIVE, FIND, GET THE PUL!, Gün + Partners Webinar, Speaker, 22.04.2021
Subjects related to the "law" part of the PEM exam, Patent and Trademark Attorneys' Association - 2021 Patent Attorney Exam Preparation Training, Speaker, 11.10.2021
Publications
- Does the ‘Long Arm’ of the UPC Reach Turkey?
- Artificial Intelligence and Pharmaceutical Industry: The Transformation in the Technology and Patent System Shaping the Future
- Applying Presumption of Patent Infingement Against Biosimilars
- IP Rights 2024 in Türkiye: Overview
- Implementation of Discovery of Evidence in Patent Law
- Designs and Utility Models Throughout the World Chapter 149A Turkey
- Patents Throughout the World Chapter 169 Turkey
- A New Slant on the Implementation of the Bolar Exemption in Turkish Patent Law
- Fending Off Tactical Patent Invalidation Actions
- Possible Effects of a Unified Patent Court in Türkiye
- Preventing Price Decreases of Original Pharmaceutical Products with Partial Preliminary Injunctions
- Inventorship of AI and Türkiye’s Position
- Global Patent Litigation 2023, Turkey Chapter
- Turning the Turkish Tide on Rising Tactical Patent Invalidation Actions
- An In-depth Analysis of Inventorship of AI and Turkey’s Position
Associations
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President of the Intellectual Property and Competition Law Committee of the Ankara Bar Association
Education
- 2024, Hacettepe University, Health Law Master’s Program
- 2014, Faculty of Law, Bilkent University, Ankara LL.B.
- 2010, TED Ankara College High School, Ankara
- 2010, International Baccalaureate Diploma, Ankara