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In Turkey, the current law pertaining to the protection of patent rights is Decree-Law 551 which is in force as from June 27, 1995. Patentability criteria are world-wide novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability. For utility models, inventive step is not required and inventions on processes and chemicals are excluded in Turkey.

Turkey has become a party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) on July 7, 1995 and PCT has started being applied for Turkey as from January 1, 1996. Being effective as of January 29, 2000, Turkey has also become a signatory of the European Patent Convention (EPC).

 
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