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Destek Patent

Firm overview

Destek Patent was established in 1983 and has been a pioneer in the field of Intellectual Property Rights, providing consultancy services in trademark, patent and design registrations for almost 40 years.

Destek Patent provides its clients with excellence in IP consultancy through its 15 offices located in Turkey, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, UAE and the UK. Besides its own offices, Destek Patent also provides IP services in 192 jurisdictions via its partners and associates.

As "Destek Patent", we continue to grow and globalise with the aim of delivering the best service to our clients all around the world.

Kenaroglu

Firm overview

Kenaroğlu Avukatlik Bürosu was established in 2008 by Yasemin Kenaroğlu who qualified as an attorney at law in 2003 and a trademark and patent attorney in 2005. She has been active in all the firm’s practice areas since 2003.
The firm’s main office is ideally located in Istanbul, with a liaison office in Ankara – home to the Turkish Patent Office – and another in Izmir – western Turkey’s commercial centre. The firm is authorised and able to handle cases in the other cities and regions of the country as well.

Kenaroğlu’s team, consisting of attorneys at law, trademark and patent attorneys and support staff, is dedicated to providing the highest-quality litigation, enforcement, prosecution and counselling services in trademark, patent, design, domain name, copyright and unfair competition matters to local and international companies in a wide variety of industries, including automotive, fashion, media and entertainment, spirits, telecommunications, software, electronics, retail chains, pharmaceuticals and textile.

The team is widely known for its success in managing large-scale trademark portfolios before the Turkish Patent Office and for its achievements in litigation and enforcement cases before the Turkish civil and criminal IP courts.

Running its own investigation department is another asset helping the firm to provide full support to the clients in all areas of intellectual and industrial property rights.
In addition to the services that Kenaroğlu provides to its clients before the judicial and administrative authorities in Turkey, the firm also actively handles the trademark portfolios of local and international clients in the Middle East and Africa through its local partners in the region.

As a boutique law firm consisting of 20+ professionals practising IP law exclusively, Kenaroğlu’s depth of experience in the field creates a compelling value proposition for its demanding clients and their complex legal needs, and uniquely enables the team to provide constructive practical advice and creative solutions on a wide range of legal matters in the most responsive, competent, efficient and effective manner.

Kenaroğlu is an active member of INTA, MARQUES, the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys – among other associations. It is highly recommended by The Legal 500, Managing IP, IAM 1000 and WTR 1000 as one of the top-tier IP firms inTurkey.

Aksoy IP

Firm overview

Aksoy IP is a full-service IP boutique in Turkey. We represent our local and international clients before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office in registration and opposition procedures and before the Turkish courts in lawsuits and advise them in their intellectual property-related contractual relationships.

We are committed to offering to our clients high-quality work with our local expertise and always being very responsive.

Aksoy IP is located in Ankara, where the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office is established, and lawsuits against the decisions of the Office shall be exclusively settled.

Sezekkaplan Lawyers

Firm overview

Sezekkaplan Lawyers is a specialized Law Office in Turkey in the field of Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition, representing the world’s giants on a global scale.
Since 2001, Sezekkaplan Lawyers has been the juridical defender of the IP rights of the global Corporate Companies in Turkey and maintains the protection of the rights and investments of clients via preventive practices.
Within this frame, we represent the corporations of industrialized countries like USA, Canada, Japan, Korea, China and EU countries. Moreover, we cooperate with the worldwide recognized artists to preserve their intellectual rights.
Areas of practice: Intellectual property: Sezekkaplan Lawyers offers consultancy services to ensure that the investments/values of its clients are secured for the protection and enforcement of all the intellectual property rights, including marks, designs, patents, and copyrights. We have specialty in unfair competition, counterfeit and derivative legal disputes occurring in the infringement of intellectual rights.
Dispute Resolution & Litigation: In addition to preventive protection, Sezekkaplan Lawyers ensures protection also in the legal monitoring processes. The firm has a serious and well-established business practice in trademark, copyright, design and patent disputes. The firm represents its clients in a solution-oriented way in mediation and negotiations, meetings and relevant processes by preserving the interests of its clients which are recognized on a global scale. Another broad area of expertise is litigation, the firm represents its clients competently in complex lawsuits.
Competition & Regulations: Sezekkaplan Lawyers represent clients in all processes in relation to the Turkish Competition Authority and provides all-round legal consultancy and litigation services within Turkish Competition Law, especially on competition-restricting agreements, claims and defenses on the abuse of dominant position, notifications of mergers and acquisitions. We provide our clients with consultancy on the legal restrictions to secure their activities in Turkey and avoid and overcome any possible obstacles and advise companies to generate business strategies.
Corporate and M&A: The corporate practice of Sezekkaplan Lawyers ensures and covers high quality consultancy services to the global companies in various sectors. The firm has offered service to the remarkable and significant M&A projects in recent years thanks to the efficiency of the digital world and rapid dynamics of the sector, and this successfully performed acquisitions have made a name for themselves both n Turkish and worldwide agenda.

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