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.
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.
