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The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (“TPTO”) has published a guide (“Guide”) outlining the factors which it considers when assessing proof of use under Article 19 of Industrial Property Law (“IP Law”). The TPTO aims to harmonize Turkish intellectual […]

Turkey has now adopted the Council of Europe Convention on the Counterfeiting of Medical Products and Similar Crimes Involving Threats to Public Health (“Convention”) into local legislation (more). The Convention criminalizes certain acts, protects victims’ rights, as well as […]

Under Turkey’s recently overhauled intellectual property regime, employees in higher education institutions are entitled to a reasonable fee for employee inventions. The fee must be at least one third of the employer’s profit from the invention. Details have now […]

The Turkish Medicine and Medical Device Agency, part of the Ministry of Health (“Ministry”), recently announced that it had seized 73 types of counterfeit and smuggled pharmaceuticals during inspections and raids so far in 2017. The counterfeit or smuggled […]

The Turkish Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (“Agency”) has become a member of the Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme (PIC/S). PIC/S leads international development, implementation and maintenance of harmonized Good Manufacturing Practice (“GMP”) standards and systems for medicinal product Inspectorates. […]

Turkey has published a Guideline for the Turkish Food Codex Labelling and Informing Consumers Regulation (“Guideline”), released in January 2017 (more). The Guideline outlines rules and limitations for information contained on food packaging, including minimum standards. The rules support […]

A Turkish court recently held that a trademark application which simply drops the figurative element from an existing trademark (which combined both word and figurative elements) does not fall within the scope of the earlier trademark’s rights. Therefore, the […]

Parties in the supply chain for products which qualify as a registered geographical indication in Turkey are also entitled to use the indication for their own purposes, even if this intellectual property right is formally registered to another party. […]

Turkey has tightened manufacturing rules for cigarette papers, as well as prohibited adding sugars, flavouring and colouring during production. It has also updated the minimum requirements for health warnings on packages for cigarette papers. Most notably, the health warning […]

The Turkish Supreme Court recently ruled that if trademark infringement also infringes personal rights, then the right holder can seek protection under Law Number 5651 Regulating Internet Broadcasting and Fighting Crimes Committed through Internet Broadcasting (“Law”). Under the Law, […]