SERVICES

Numbers of patent, trademark or design filings in Turkey are rapidly increasing in recent years. Thus monitoring of the filings became very important in order to maintain your competition advantage and timely prevent imitation attempts. To achieve this, it is a must to have regularly updated information as to all filing attempts.

As in many countries, in Turkey, all applications are published for a certain time period, ranging from 3 to 6 months, for objections of third parties to prevent registration of objected applications. If it is failed to timely file an objection, only way to invalidation is to launch legal action which is often costly and time consuming. Thus, companies having intensive industrial activities in Turkey must take advantage of such watch services to take all necessary precautions.

In the light of above, our WatchArt ® service, running on our comprehensive IP monitoring system and, enables us to effectively watch patent, trademarks and industrial design filings based on many watch criteria such as classification, competitor name or similarity. Accordingly, our extended watch criteria not only allow our client to prevent registrations of some applications but also enable them to have updated information on activities of their competitors as well as developments in their technology field. Details can be found in the following table:

WatchArt ®	Classification	Competitor	Similarity	Sector specific
Patents	Yes (IPC)	Yes	Upon special request	Yes
Trademarks	Yes (Nice)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Designs	Yes (Locarno)	Yes	Upon special request	Yes

 

Objections

If an application is found relevant, upon their instruction of the client, our trademark attorneys at law prepare the objection document in coordination with one of attorney at law and then timely file the objection. We do trust our expertise in relevant law, which is the key issue to obtain successful results from objections. Moreover, we offer special discounts in objection service rates to those regularly benefiting from our watch services.