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We offer comprehensive, strategic legal consultancy in intellectual property (IP) law to help protect and enhance the value of your trademarks and creative works. We support clients across various sectors in compliance with both Turkish and international IP regulations, working closely with our international partners; particularly in France and across Europe; when needed. From local procedures to cross-border disputes, our aim is to safeguard our clients’ rights in a sustainable and commercially viable manner.
Our key services include:
- Managing procedures before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT), including trademark applications, oppositions, administrative cancellations, and registry updates (transfers, renewals, licenses, change of address or title changes)
- Pre-application success assessments and risk analysis for new trademark registrations
- Trademark monitoring services and filing oppositions against third-party applications
- Handling post-registration transactions, including assignments, licensing, renewals, and registry updates
- Drafting and negotiating coexistence agreements for similar trademarks
- Structuring IP portfolios in line with investment and partnership processes
- Providing legal opinions, risk assessments, and strategic advisory on IP matters
- Managing employer-employee IP rights concerning inventions and employee-created works; facilitating the transfer, use, and commercialisation of such rights
- Drafting contracts for software, digital content, databases, and other tech-related IP
- Preparing and negotiating licensing, assignment, publishing, distribution, and co-production agreements for copyrighted works
- Offering integrated bilingual legal services (via our French Desk) for IP registration, use, and disputes between France and Turkey
- Drafting and negotiating franchising, know-how transfer, and IP assignments agreements
- Structuring, monitoring, and managing trademark and IP portfolios
- Conducting due diligence on IP assets in mergers, acquisitions, and investment transactions
- Providing comprehensive legal advisory for SaaS-based software, including source code protection and licensing structures
- Issuing cease-and-desist letters, documenting infringements (via e-notary, screenshots, log records), and drafting settlement protocols
- Initiating legal action and injunctions concerning trademark, patent, design, and copyright infringements
- Pursuing unfair competition claims based on IP rights
- Handling domain name registrations, protection strategies, and disputes through TRABİS and UDRP processes
- Applying alternative dispute resolution methods: arbitration, mediation, settlement negotiations, and cease-and-desist procedures
