Articles from our experts on trademark registration, patent registration, industrial design registration, and intellectual property.
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Place your brand name on the five-tier distinctiveness spectrum, from fanciful to generic, with real examples, and predict its registration odds before filing.
Copyright registration is one layer, not the whole defence. Here is how to stack trade-secret hygiene, NDAs, escrow and contracts to protect source code.
Novelty and individual character are the two tests every registered design must pass in Turkey. See what each means, with chair, bottle and pattern examples.
How pharma and medtech companies sequence patents, brand-name trademarks and design filings around the regulatory timeline so disclosure never kills novelty.
Descriptive brand names feel marketable but leave you with a mark you can barely enforce. Here is the real cost and the secondary-meaning escape route.
A software copyright registration proves authorship and a date, not that your code is original. Here is how it shifts the burden of proof in a code-theft case.
A logo or product shape can be filed as an industrial design, as a trademark, or as both. Here is how the two registers differ and when to choose each one.
Sell your patent outright or license it for royalties? A decision guide to assignment vs licensing: the control and tax trade-offs, plus TURKPATENT recordal.
A Madrid trademark hangs on your Turkish home mark for five years. See how central attack works, what triggers it, and the transformation route that saves you.
