Any real person or legal persons

• residing or conducting industrial or commercial business in Turkey;
• who have application rights under provisions of Paris or Bern Convention or the Agreement Establishing World Trade Organization;
• who are nationals of states which accord legal and de facto protection to Turkish nationals and
• who can enjoy according to the reciprocity principle design protection in Turkey.

If an applicant has no domicile or business seat in Turkey, a Turkish patent & trademark attorney registered before Turkish Patent Institute must be appointed.

There are four routes for filing an application for invention, namely;

1. Conventional single or multiple design application and
2. Taking advantage of Huge agreement

The protection period for a registered industrial design is 5 years and should be renewed every 5 years for 4 times for the extension of protection upto 25 years.

Yes. In the circumstances below, disclosure of information which otherwise would affect the patentability of an invention claimed in the application shall not affect the patentability of that invention where the information was disclosed, during the 12 months preceding the date of filing or, where priority is claimed, the date of priority of the application:

a)   by the inventor,

b)   by an office when the information was contained (1) in another application filed by the inventor and which application should not have been disclosed by the office, or (2) in an application filed without the knowledge or consent of the inventor by a third party which obtained the information directly or indirectly from the inventor or,

c)   by a third party which obtained the information directly or indirectly from the inventor.

No.

No.