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First Legal Regulation for Artificial Intelligence Systems: AI Act

Artificial intelligence, which has become one of the most important components of modern technology, has rapidly transformed our interaction with technology, seamlessly integrating into various areas of our daily routines. AI technologies, offering significant advancements and innovative solutions in fields such as medicine, finance, transportation, education and many others, have also brought with sensitivities towards critical issues such as ethics, security and privacy.… »

The First of its Kind: Compensation for Damages Caused by Unfair Preliminary Injunction Decisions in the Pharmaceutical Industry

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One must have deep knowledge and experience in many different disciplines to play a role in the solution of complex and multi-layered patent law disputes. One of the most important examples of this situation are compensation actions filed following the abolition of preliminary injunctions in patent disputes related to the pharmaceutical industry. As a matter of fact, the decisions of the courts of first instance and the Court of Appeal in these types of cases give direction… »

A New Slant on the Implementation of the Bolar Exemption in Turkish Patent Law

The Bolar Exemption falls under the provision of Article 85(3)/(c) of the Industrial Property Code No. 6769 (IP Code) and regulates the marketing authorisation of pharmaceuticals, the testing and experiments required for this purpose and the exemption of experimental acts involving the patent subject to the invention from the scope of rights protected by the patent. The aim of the Bolar Exemption is to ensure that Gx pharmaceutical products can be put on the market without… »

SEP: Navigating the Technology-Driven World

Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs) is a concept arising from the interaction between patent rights, which provide exclusive use of an invention and “standards” aimed at the widespread and mandatory use of this innovation in the relevant market. Considering the upward trend in patent litigation arising from SEPs, it would be fair to say that SEP has become patent law’s new buzzword. Licensing SEPs: FRAND Terms Standard Developing Organisations (“SDOs”) determine the technical… »

Fending Off Tactical Patent Invalidation Actions

Filing patent invalidation actions for tactical purposes, such as jeopardizing patent infringement actions of patent owners and gaining time by complicating the infringement proceedings, has become a common strategy of infringers in recent years. With this strategy, the parties infringing the patent may cause the patent owner to suffer due to the inability to enforce their patent as they are entitled to during the limited protection period of 20 years, even if the invalidity… »

Possible Effects of a Unified Patent Court in Türkiye

The concept of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) entered the lives of European Patent holders with the UPC Agreement, an international agreement dated 19 February 2013. The Unified Patent Court started operating as of 01 June, 2023. The Unified Patent Court constitutes a big and important step towards unity of the judiciary for European Union member states. The Statistics and Trends Centre of the European Patent Office (EPO) reported that 17,788 unitary effect requests were made… »

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