The Industrial Property Code (IP Code) entered into force upon publication in the Official Gazette on January 10 2017. The IP Code has now replaced the respective decree-laws (D-L) pertaining to the protection of trade marks, patents, geographical indications and industrial designs, unifying them into a single code. Article 30 of the IP Code extends the scope of offence, compared to the trade mark D-L. Under Article 61/A of the D-L, the “manufacturing, offering for sale and…
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Introduction
On July 15 2016 Parliament enacted an omnibus act amending several laws. The Law on the Amendment of Some Laws to Improve the Investment Environment focuses on:
reducing costs in relation to the investment environment;
eliminating the legal differences in relation to R&D incentives;
harmonising practices among financial institutions;
encouraging foreign investment; and
reducing the costs of establishing companies and opening branches.
Conversely, the law…
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The long awaited Industrial Property Law (“The Law”), numbered 6769, finally came into force in Turkey on 10 January 2017. The new law regulates all IP rights in a single code. It consists of 193 articles and 6 provisional articles divided into five chapters. The first four Books of the law regulate trademarks, geographical indications, designs and patent rights respectively. The name of the Turkish Patent Institute has changed to the Turkish Patent and Trademark Authority…
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Following the merger of various IP-related decree-laws into a single code, the brand new Industrial Property Code (No 6769) entered into force as of January 10 2017.
At the beginning of 1990s, Turkey was in the process of becoming part of the EU Customs Union and one of its obligations was to adapt its domestic IP law to comply with EU regulations. In order to achieve this, Turkey rapidly enacted IP-related decree-laws in 1995. Decree-laws were preferred since they require…
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The long-awaited Industrial Property Law (6769) finally came into force in Turkey on January 10 2017. The new law regulates all IP rights in a single code. It consists of 193 articles and six provisional articles, divided into five chapters. The first four books of the law regulate trademarks, geographical indications, designs and patent rights, respectively, while the fifth book sets out common provisions valid for all IP rights. Article 188 of the law changes the name of…
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The New Turkish Industrial Property Code entered into force on January 10, 2017. This Code replaces the Decree-laws pertaining to the protection of trade marks, patents, geographical indications and designs, all of which date back to 1995, by bringing all those rights together within the ambit of a single Code.
The design chapter includes changes which seek to achieve greater compliance with the relevant directives of European Union. The major changes relate to the designs…
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