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.
Source code is copyright, a technical method may be patentable. Why pure software is hard to patent in Turkey, and the layered strategy a SaaS founder needs.
Copyright never protects an idea, plot, method or format. It protects the specific expression. Here is where that line sits and when a copy crosses it.
