Our practice involves all aspects of intellectual property protection for our clients, including trademarks, patents, utility models, industrial designs, copyrights, unfair competition, trade secrets, domain names and etc…

Industrial Designs

In Turkey industrial designs are protected under a separate industrial design law and an industrial design needs to be registered in the Turkish Patent Institute’s Industrial Design Department. Our services also include the steps of determining whether it is likely that an industrial design maybe registered, and the preparation of the industrial design application itself.

Our industrial design prosecution and counseling services include:

• • Performance of industrial design searches and analysis of search results to determine whether and industrial design may be registrable;
• • Preparation and filing of industrial design applications in Turkish Patent Institute;
• • Prosecution of industrial design applications in the Turkish Patent Institute;
• • Performance of industrial design clearance searches to determine whether our clients’ products might infringe industrial designs held by competitors;
• • Providing technical and legal advice to help our clients products and services that do not infringe industrial designs held by competitors; and
• • Negotiating and preparing industrial design licenses

We like to work closely with our clients and associates. We offer advice about how to best protect designs of products and avoid infringement of competitors’ rights. We also advise clients and associates on complex industrial designs licensing issues