Articles from our experts on trademark registration, patent registration, industrial design registration, and intellectual property.
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When a single colour becomes a trademark in Turkey: the high distinctiveness bar, the consumer-recognition evidence needed, and how to lock down a brand colour.
Lyrics, composition, performance and master are four separate rights inside one song. See who owns each, and what each person can register, license and earn.
Boxes, bottles, and labels are design assets most brands forget to register. What to file: the 2D label or the 3D shape, and how it backs the brand trademark.
Novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability decide if an invention can be patented in Turkey. See what each test demands and how examiners apply it.
How a jingle or audio signature becomes a registered sound mark in Turkey, the representation requirement at TURKPATENT, and which sounds get rejected.
How MIT, Apache and GPL code affects who owns your software. The copyleft trap, attribution duties and why to audit your dependency tree before you raise money.
How Turkey's 12-month design grace period lets you disclose a design before filing, what counts as your own disclosure, and the trap of relying on it abroad.
How a patent application moves from the formal check to search report, novelty and inventive-step examination, written opinions, and amendments to grant.
Place your brand name on the five-tier distinctiveness spectrum, from fanciful to generic, with real examples, and predict its registration odds before filing.
