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Under Article 6(9) of Industrial Property Code No. 6769, concerning relative grounds for refusal in trademark registration: “Trademark applications filed in bad faith shall be refused upon opposition.” For a trademark application to be considered…
Read moreUnder Article 5(1)(ç) of Industrial Property Code No. 6769, concerning absolute grounds for refusal in trademark registration, “signs identical to, or indistinguishably similar from, a trademark that has been registered — or for which an…
Read moreUnder Article 19 of the Industrial Property Code No. 6769 (“IPC”), concerning the examination of oppositions to publication: “The Office shall request the applicant to submit its views on the opposition within the applicable period.…
Read moreAs of 20 December 2024, the “Communiqué on the Classification of Goods and Services for Trademark Registration Applications,” to be applied to trademark applications, was published in the Official Gazette dated 20 December 2024, No.…
Read moreThe perception of trademark registration in Turkey differs considerably from practice abroad. The so-called “class covering” approach — filing across an entire class regardless of actual use — is deeply entrenched, and new applicants tend…
Read moreINTA (International Trademark Association) defines a Coexistence Agreement as follows: an agreement that allows two or more parties to determine the conditions under which similar trademarks can coexist without a likelihood of confusion, and live…
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