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 Intellectual products are funds of society. Intellectual production is the driver of other productions. Economical, cultural and social developments of countries rely on intellectual production. In long term, societies generating values within various fields shall survive. Consuming societies shall be surrendered by producer societies.
For industrialized nations, the age of industry expired and information age has begun. Today, manufacture is mainly based on knowledge. Through merit-perception of knowledge, information generation has rapidly increased and in parallel to this, intellectual property protection has become more and more important. Highly featuring scientific and technologic improvement and establishing an efficient intellectual property system have caused the difference between developed and under-developed countries.
Rapid increase in commercial income resulting from intellectual and artistic works made said field a profitable sector. Now, production of musical, cinema, literature works and computer software are giant industries of billions-USD. Examples of those are Google and Microsoft, bosses of which have been the richest men of the world in a very short period, fund thereof is knowledge.
Request on said field have pushed up the profit margin. This situation has emerged counterfeit and, violation on intellectual property rights have increased. The ones who could not be able to protect intellectual rights thereof are facing enormous financial loss. Developed states executed international treaties to protect inventions, original designs, trademarks, software, cinema and musical works, scientific and literature works that are subject to intellectual property in an international manner.
Failure on adequate protection of intellectual property slows down innovation and progress. This circumstance causes to fall behind at international competition. The goal of intellectual property law is to encourage intellectual production and to enable social and cultural development. An effective intellectual property protection is essential in order to promote R&D investments, appeal to foreign capital and encourage innovation.
Intellectual property rights are protected in state basis. According to state basis principle, an intellectual property right is protected within scope of a state's legislation and solely within the territory of that state, wherever a protection is required.
Apart from tangible property, intellectual property rights are subject-to-term. In Turkey; any scientific and literature work, musical and cinema work, starting from the introduction of said work, is being protected during living of the owner and also for 70 years upon decease of said owner. Examined patents, unexamined patents, utility models and designs can be protected for a period of 25 years through renewal periods respectively for 20, 7, 10 and 5 years, and trademarks can be protected for any period through 10-year renewals.
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