Utility Model Application or Patent Registration Application?

One alternative method for protecting an invention is utility model protection. Should you file a utility model application or a patent registration application? We can answer that as follows. If you have created an invention that no one has made before, you would file a patent registration application because this invention is unique.

Later, you develop a few innovations for your invention, adding new features. But you had already received a patent registration certificate for this invention. Now, there is no need to apply for a new patent registration. Instead, you file a utility model application.

For a utility model, an inventive step is sought, rather than an invention created from scratch. Whether an inventive step exists will be determined by TÜRKPATENT (the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office) based on an expert in the relevant technical field.