An industrial design application is filed by your attorney upon receipt of the
Required Documents. Application form to be filed to the Turkish Patent Institute will reflect the necessary particulars you have provided and include the
Locarno class which your design belongs to.
Once a design application is filed and the formal deficiencies, if any, have been remedied, the TPI accepts the application and publishes it for possible oppositions. Natural or legal persons may oppose to the registration of a design application within six months of the publication of the design in the Official Industrial Designs Bulletin as far as the novelty and the individual character of the said design(s) are concerned.
In the event no opposition is filed within the six months during publication, an official notification regarding the registration decision of the Turkish Patent Institute is received and the industrial design registration certificate is issued which is to be checked and forwarded to you immediately upon receipt from the Turkish Patent Institute. Protection survives five years as from the filing date and the proprietor of the industrial design is entitled to prevent third parties from using identical or confusingly similar designs as long as the protection is valid.
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