Trademarks and Designs
Practice Overview
We provide wide ranging and comprehensive legal services in relation to trademarks and designs. Our comprehensive services include advisory, prosecution, watch, opposition, appeals, enforcement, litigation and transactional services on all aspects of trademarks and designs including registration and enforcement strategies, IP due diligences as well as availability searches and clearance opinions.
We are authorised to represent clients before civil and criminal courts, and court of cassation as well as all administrative authorities such as Turkish Patent and Trademark Authority (“TÜRKPATENT”), customs, domain name authorities. Some of our lawyers are also qualified as trademark and patent attorneys authorised to act before the TÜRKPATENT.
We regularly handle nullity and invalidity, cancellation, well-known trademark protection, anti-dilution, passing off, unfair competition and trade dress actions and large scale damages claims before courts as well as customs seizure applications and criminal and civil searches and seizures.
Combining our litigation, transaction and industry knowledge we draft, negotiate trademark and design related agreements and transactions including, manufacturing, toll-manufacturing, co-existence, co-promotion settlement and licensing agreements.
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Thought Leadership
We have compiled our articles on various topics of trademark law that we deem important for brand owners, which we have developed over the course of the last year.
Insights
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V Versus V: Assessment of Similarity Between One-letter Trademarks
WTR, Articles, 20.09.2022 -
Recent Legal Updates Regarding NFTs First Preliminary Injunction Regarding NFTs Issued by a Court in Turkey
Gün + Partners, Articles, 14.09.2022 -
Turkish IP Office Rules on Similarity of Figurative Marks: Timberland’s Tree Emblem
ManagingIP, Articles, 12.09.2022 -
Recent Case Highlights Lack of Harmonisation Between Courts’ Approach and PTO’s Practice
WTR, Articles, 12.09.2022 -
First Preliminary Injunction Issued by a Court in Turkey Regarding NFTs
The IPKat, Articles, 29.08.2022 -
New Law on E-Commerce Obliges Platforms to Remove Infringing Content
WTR, Articles, 25.08.2022 -
Patent and Trademark Office Implements Service by Publication Procedure
WTR, Articles, 29.06.2022 -
Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technologies and Their Impacts on Brand Protection
Brand Protection Professional, Articles, 27.06.2022 -
Birleşik Krallık ve Çin’den NFT’ler ile İlgili İki Güncel Mahkeme Kararına Genel Bir Bakış
IPR Gezgini, Articles, 09.06.2022 -
Registrability of 3D Trademarks
PTMG - Law Lore & Practice May 2022, Articles, 24.05.2022