• Design search
  • Design applications
  • Consultancy services concerning oppositions
  • Filing oppositions and/or counterviews
  • Monitoring services for opposition processes
  • Status check
  • Renewal applications
  • Consultation for counterfeit products and/or bad-faith trademark applications
  • Handling post-registration procedures such as license, transfer, address change, trade name change

General İnformations

The term for filing the industrial design applications in Turkey claiming priority is six months from the priority date.
Application of several designs may be combined in one application. However, this option is subjected to the condition, except cases of ornamentation, that the products where the designs are intended to be incorporated or when they are intended to be applied, and all of them belong to the same sub-class or the same set or composition of items.
For obtainment of the date of filing the industrial design application in Turkey should contain:

* a copy of the POA form (simply signed and stamped);

* request to grant a patent;

* payment of the Official Fees;

* drawings/photos of the design.

If there is, the Certified copy of the priority document and its Turkish translation should be provided to the Patent Office within three months from the filing of the industrial design application in Turkey.
If the applicant of the Turkish design application is not the creator of design, he must declare in the application how he has acquired from the creator the right to apply for a patent. Legalisation of the Assignment Deed is required.
The term of protection of industrial design in Turkey is five years from the filing date of the design application. It can be protected for a maximum term of 25 years on the condition that the extension fees are paid for consecutive periods of 5 years.

International Organizations/ Aggreements

  • Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration
  • Patent Law Treaty
  • Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks
  • WIPO Copyright Treaty
  • WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
  • Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs
  • Trademark Law Treaty
  • Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations
  • Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International  Registration of Marks
  • Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Micro-organisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure
  • Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs
  • Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification
  • Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks
  • Patent Cooperation Treaty
  • Vienna Agreement Establishing the International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks
  • Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization
  • Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
  • Madrid Agreement for the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Source on Goods
  • Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property