The Trademark Office has recently changed its practice in opposition proceedings with regard to national designations of IRs
The office has started to notify IR owners via WIPO when an opposition is filed against their designations in Turkey
The difference in treatment between IR designations and national applications had been widely criticised
The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office has recently changed its practice in opposition proceedings with regard to national…
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In December 2019, the Court of Appeal issued two decisions in which the nature of consumers has been scrutinized while assessing likelihood of confusion between pharmaceutical trade marks.
Infantum v Infanta
A trade mark application INFANTUM was filed before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (the Office) covering goods in classes 3 and 5, against which an opposition was filed based on the prior registered trade mark INFANTA covering the same classes.The opposition was…
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Introduction
The fair and swift resolution of consumer disputes serves the interests of not only the consumers, but also the businesses involved. Consumers purchase more when they are confident that they will be treated fairly in a potential dispute. Businesses, on the other hand, become economically inoperable and unviable following systematic violations against consumers and the rapid and fair enforcement of consumer rights. In short, all market players are better off in an…
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Commercial Dispute Resolution under Turkish Law: Rules, Developments and Insights
Turkish civil litigation is a unique system where the concepts and practices of civil law meet with the ones originating from Turkish law. Along with the classical and common judiciary concepts and practices among civil law systems, Turkish law envisages a sui generis concept called “enforcement proceedings without judgment”. This frequently-resorted type of enforcement action is native to…
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While the world and Turkey are dealing with coronavirus pandemic, demand for protective masks, sanitizer, cleaning products and foodstuff significantly increased. Some manufacturers, suppliers and retail businesses exorbitantly and inequitably increased prices of those products which are intensively demanded by the consumers during this outbreak.
The Advertisement Board, recently in March 2020, imposed administrative monetary fine corresponding to TRL 10.090.060…
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Within the scope of the fight against the spread of Covid-19, provisional article 13 was added to the Turkish Commercial Code (“TCC”) with the Law numbered 7244 adopted on 16 April 2020. The said provisional article brought certain restrictions on dividend distribution rights of the equity companies until 30 September 2020 and it was further regulated that the companies exempt from these restrictions and the procedures and principles regarding the application thereof would be…
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