
Search the Design Registers Before You File and Before You Launch
A design search does two jobs: it clears your novelty and checks freedom to operate. Where to look across the national, EU, and Hague registers before launch.

A design search does two jobs: it clears your novelty and checks freedom to operate. Where to look across the national, EU, and Hague registers before launch.

Service inventions under Law No. 6769: the notification duty, the employer's claim, the inventor's statutory pay, and the contract clauses employers need.

A knockout search and a clearance search answer different questions before you file a trademark in Turkey. Here is how deep each goes and when to use it.

Rank candidate names on the distinctiveness spectrum and stress-test the shortlist before you spend on a logo, so the name you pick can actually be registered.

Registering your company name at the Turkish trade registry is not brand protection. Here is why a trade name and a registered trademark are different rights.

The five most common reasons TURKPATENT refuses a trademark application in Turkey, with a plain example of each and the practical step that prevents it.

A practical guide to choosing between a patent and a utility model in Turkey: examination, term, inventive step, cost, and when each one fits your invention.

A practical order of operations for Turkish e-commerce sellers: clear your name, register the trademark, get GS1 barcodes, then enrol in Brand Registry.

Industrial design protects how a product looks: shape, pattern, packaging, and screen layouts. What qualifies, the two tests, and why you register it.