1)What is a trademark?
A trademark , provided that it is capable of distinguishing the goods and services of one undertaking from the goods and services of other undertakings, may consist of all kinds of signs being represented graphically such as words, including personal names, designs, letters, numerals, shape of the goods or their packaging and similarly descriptive means capable of being published and reproduced by printing.
Trademark may be registered along with the product or the packaging. However, the registration of the product or the packaging does not grant exclusive rights.
2)Kinds of a mark?
Trademarks, Service marks, Common marks, Guarantee marks, Sound marks
3)Person entitled to protection?
The protection conferred by the law is available to natural and legal persons who are domiciled or who have industrial or commercial establishments within the territory of the Turkish Republic, or to the persons who have application rights resulting from the terms of the Paris or Bern Conventions or the Agreement Establishing World Trade Organisation.
Natural or legal persons other than those referred in the first paragraph of this Article, who are nationals of states which accord legal and de facto protection to the nationals of the Turkish Republic shall enjoy according to the reciprocity principle trademark protection in Turkey.
4)Agent appointment obligation
Those who are not domiciled in Turkey have to appoint an agent who is recorded in the Registry of Agents kept by the Institute in order to register their marks and for other procedures after registration. |
