 Besides being structured upon client’s expectations, Acar Intellectual Property is serving its clients with a dynamic solution-oriented team of attorneys and professionals in order to make them have patents that are not vulnerable to competitor’s challenges. To protect your inventions, Acar Intellectual Property professionally offers you an extensive service in all stages of patent proceedings.
Services that Acar provides regarding patents are;
§ Filing National Patent / Utility Model Applications
§ Filing PCT National Phase Entries
§ Validation of European Patents
§ Translation of the specifications
§ Carrying out searches in the official records of Turkish Patent Institute,
§ Filing arguments and oppositions, sending the warning letters,
§ Following and paying annuities,
§ Preparation of deed of assignments / license agreements,
§ Recordal of assignments / licenses / company merges,
§ Recordal of name / address / status changes,
§ Legal counseling and assistance.
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. This has brought the modern provisions such as obtaining utility model certificates, publication and opposition by third parties, patentability criteria, compulsory license, granting by examination and non-examination system, establishment of specialized courts and compensation of damages against infringements.
The protection period of a patent is 20 years whereas of a utility model is 10 years. As an option, it is also possible for an applicant to delay substantive examination stage for 7 years by obtaining an unexamined patent protection.
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.
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). |
