Design

Istanbul Patent, as a highly experienced firm for IP matters, provides its real and corporate body clients in domestic and international scales with full services at the broadest extent on legal and administrative proceedings regarding registration and protection of their design rights with its expert team consisted of patent and trademark attorneys.

Our design team who is highly qualified from both technical and legal aspects represents our clients before Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (“Turkish Patent”) and Turkish courts as well as the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) for their design transactions.

In line with our clients’ demands and needs; our design team offers fast, updated and fruitful legal solutions on design law including but not limited to submission of design applications after preparing the file properly from both legal and technical aspects, protection of unregistered designs and dispute resolution.

-Examination of all technical aspects and visuals related to the design application, ensuring registrability checks, and providing necessary information on any deficiencies if present.
-Preparation and submission of design visuals and the application.
-Preparation and submission of priority documents and their translations.
-Reporting all developments related to the design application after submission.
-Reporting Turkish Patent decisions, including legal opinions and recommendations.
-Submitting necessary responses and objection petitions against Turkish Patent decisions.
-Checking information regarding the published design application from the relevant bulletin.
-Notifying and providing necessary responses to objections received after the design registration.
-Providing legal opinions and submitting necessary objections regarding objections to published design registrations.
-Tracking design renewal processes.
-Preparation of necessary documents/contracts and making applications to the Turkish Patent Office for legal transactions such as licenses, transfers, pledges, company mergers/splits, address, and name changes.
-Determining strategies for protecting unregistered designs and managing the required administrative/legal processes.
-Sending warnings in case of design infringements and handling potential negotiations and legal processes.
-Filing international design registration applications with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) under the Hague Agreement and monitoring all related processes.
-Filing Community Design registration applications with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and monitoring all related processes.
-Handling design registration applications and all related processes for countries where direct registration is desired through our long-standing collaboration with local design attorney colleagues.