Intellectual Property
Our IP department offers robust support to protect your Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights. With a dedicated team, we deliver top-tier legal services, ensuring comprehensive protection and the best strategic solutions at both national and international levels.
Our intellectual property team is renowned for its expertise, delivering top-tier litigation, enforcement, prosecution, and advisory services across a wide range of industries, both domestically and internationally. Our legal and criminal proceedings in Türkiye for leading trademarks have been instrumental in safeguarding these brands in the market.
With a strong focus on anti-counterfeiting strategies, comprehensive IP enforcement, and managing large-scale IP portfolios before the Turkish Patent Office, we ensure robust protection of our clients’ IP rights worldwide. Our extensive market experience allows us to provide practical advice and creative solutions to meet our clients’ legal needs effectively and efficiently.
Our team combines expertise in intellectual property, technology, telecommunications, and media regulation, enabling us to manage a wide range of legal matters, including IP disputes, regulatory matters, mergers and acquisitions, and trademark registration. We emphasize brand strategy, IP litigation, digital copyright, telecommunications, internet law, and e-commerce. Our services cover trademarks, patents, designs, copyrights, trade secrets, and unfair competition.
Areas of Expertise
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We assist with trademark registration, renewals, and monitoring within Turkiye’s Customs Surveillance System, and play an active role in the detection of counterfeit products and follow-up on their destruction. We aim to increase awareness of brands among customs officials and strengthen our relations with customs officials through the customs trainings we attend.
Our team manages criminal complaints and organizes raids and seizures of counterfeit goods across provinces, with investigators specializing in detecting counterfeits in industries such as fashion, textiles, cosmetics, perfumes, and automotive industries. We also prioritize online investigations to identify the sources of infringements, including producers, importers, and distributors of counterfeit goods.
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Our services before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office include filing trademark applications, managing oppositions, handling trademark renewals, monitoring trademark bulletins and conducting availability searches. We also manage trademark portfolios, filing applications and oppositions via WIPO, EUIPO, and local offices.
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We represent our clients in all types of civil and criminal proceedings, including trademark infringement cases, cancellation actions, unfair competition claims, and appeals against decisions by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office, along with requests for preliminary injunctions. We also issue cease and desist letters and handle settlement negotiations with infringers.
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We focus on maximizing the value of our clients’ intellectual property while minimizing risks. Our team supports a diverse range of clients in licensing and provides consultancy to acquire, protect, license, and monetize all types of intellectual property rights. We manage IP assets to enhance their value, drafting agreements such as licenses and assignments, and handling IP-related aspects of acquisitions, IPOs, joint ventures, and industrial projects. Additionally, we conduct comprehensive IP due diligence to ensure strategic alignment and protection.
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The services we offer for the protection of domain names encompass a wide range, from the registration of domain names to portfolio management and representation in administrative and judicial authorities regarding domain-related disputes. In this context, our team is engaged in combating intellectual property infringements on the internet, including domain name hijacking, trolling, and the removal of counterfeit products from online markets.
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We offer comprehensive legal services in copyright disputes, protecting rights-holders’ exclusive rights. Our services include handling copyright infringement and unfair competition actions, compensation claims, and securing preliminary injunctions.