Another service area of our company is with respect to the rights of computer software protection which include submission and registration procedures before the Ministry of Culture, preparing contracts, taking necessary legal actions against possible ambiguities that might cause negative effect on our rightful clients, and also filing required oppositions in case the client’s software is subject to a trademark or an industrial design registration.

In case where the clients’ trademarks are used as domain names in the same or similar business fields by third parties that benefit from the afore said unfair competition, we take necessary legal actions and ensure that the subject websites are not accessible.

Against third party design applications which are similar enough to create unfair competition with our clients’ registered designs, we file oppositions against such third party applications to preclude unfair registrations to protect our clients’ rights well before or without taking any legal actions.

Regarding industrial design applications, we make searches through national data, arrange design reports for the Turkish Patent Institute, and perform necessary preliminary examinations in order to make sure that the application is successfully registered. Upon instructions, we handle renewal formalities of the Industrial Designs that are already registered.

Concerning our clients’ patent applications, our services include discussing on what moves to be made for optimum right protection, evaluating the same as per national laws and regulations, in relation therewith making necessary amendments on the patent file e.g. on the claims or in the description of the invention, filing additional patent application or dividing the patent application.

We provide our consultancy service including the evaluation and the examination of a patent file, both before the application and also during the application process.

We provide our legal services through both our in-house attorneys as well our legal partners in accordance with the Articles of Attorney’ Act. Our main service area is legal actions with respect to trademark, patent and industrial design cases particularly those relate to indemnity, infringement, determination, recall, confiscations at the Customs and invalidation matters.

In addition, actions against unfair competition and legal agreements are alsoperformed by our company and the legal consultancy service that we provide to our clients is performed by Attorneys at Law in accordance with the related regulations and acts.

Any change in ownership of a patent right reasoned from mergers, take overs, etc. are duly filed and the clients’ patent rights are kept protected

We conduct our clients’ change of recordal formalities such as tradename change, address change, etc. that are directly linked to patent recordal information.