The Tenth Development Plan, which covers 2014 to 2018, emphasises the government’s aim of enhancing international accreditation and standard-setting capacity to provide the effective and sustainable use of research infrastructures and to foster greater cooperation between the public and private sectors.
In order to achieve this aim, the Turkish government had declared a policy of transforming research centres within universities and public institutions into sustainable…
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The Tenth Development Plan of Turkey, which spans the period between 2014 and 2018, emphasises the necessity to enhance the country’s accreditation and standard-setting capacity at international levels. This is to provide effective and sustainable use of research infrastructures through diversification, as well as a desire to foster greater cooperation between the public and private sectors.
According to this development plan, measures should be taken to establish platforms…
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Introduction
The fight against corruption is a serious challenge in the pharmaceutical sector in Turkey and worldwide. This is because the state is generally the main buyer of goods and services provided by pharmaceutical companies and healthcare professionals such as doctors play a significant role as decision makers in the purchasing process.
Interactions between pharmaceutical companies, healthcare professionals and healthcare organisations are highly regulated by general…
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The European Patent Convention (EPC) is part of Turkish domestic law and is enforced in Turkey under Article 90 of the Constitution. As an international agreement, it cannot be declared unconstitutional. The EPC can be applied directly in Turkey and is legally binding. Under it, Turkey recognises the competence and decisions of institutions established under the EPC. Member states cannot declare their preference for decisions of European Patent Office (EPO) bodies (eg, the…
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The applicant filed a trademark application for the sign depicted below, seeking registration in Class 3 of the Nice Classification:
The opponent is the owner of prior trademark registrations with WIPO for the exact same sign and has been using that sign for the same goods for years. It opposed the application pursuant to:
Article 8/3 of the Decree Law No 556 on the Protection of Trademarks (genuine rights of the opponent);
Article 8/4 (well-known status of the cited…
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