Insights

Handling impersonation accounts, handle squatting and unauthorised content use — what platform reports require and when legal action is needed.

Verifying ownership, scope and risk in trademark and patent portfolios before an acquisition, plus the contractual traps that survive closing.

How Article 5/B exempts half of qualifying income from patented or utility-model inventions, which income qualifies, and how it shapes filing strategy.

How Turkish patent annuity due dates are calculated from the filing date, the six-month surcharge period, and how portfolios lose patents by accident.

Drafting claims, the twelve-month search request, publication at eighteen months, examination and grant — plus the deadlines that end an application.

The difference between a novelty search before filing and a freedom-to-operate search before launch, how each is run, and what to do with a negative result.

How a notarised letter of consent overcomes a refusal based on an earlier mark, how such consent is negotiated, and what a co-existence agreement should cover.

The six-month renewal window, the grace period and its surcharge, partial renewal strategy, and what is lost when a Turkish trademark is allowed to lapse.

Civil claims, the three statutory methods for calculating lost profit, interim relief and criminal liability for infringing a registered Turkish trademark.

A practical guide to TÜRKPATENT’s free trademark search: how to search, how to read statuses and classes, and the blind spots of a self-search.

Exclusive vs non-exclusive licences, quality control obligations, recordal with TÜRKPATENT and the clauses that determine outcomes in licensing disputes.

The Office sends no alerts. How watching protects the two-month opposition window and prevents loss of rights through five-year acquiescence.