Turkey

Firm overview

Destek Patent is a multinational legal practice that provides full range intellectual property (IP) services including trademarks, patents, industrial designs, new plant varieties & more since 1983. Thanks to our workforce of more than 200 qualified in-house staff members, including 50 patent & trademark attorneys, we have been Turkey’s top-filer IP firm for more than two decades.

Thanks to our long-term expertise, our clients can rely on an outstanding professional structure with 15 branches in 3 countries – spearheaded from our headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey. Our high-quality international network, tested by a wide range of problems and refined over many years, enables our firm to support domestic and international clients in every IP proceedings: worldwide.

We advise clients in all aspects of IP – this includes obtaining worldwide protection, portfolio management, strategic advice, commercial advice, licensing, enforcement, due diligence, litigation, IP valuation, design and brand naming consultancy. Destek Patent is especially renowned for its European Patent (EP) validation services, patent annuity and trademark renewal services.

Whether you represent an entrepreneur, a corporation or a law firm, we at Destek Patent are fully adaptable to your organization's particular needs, including large-scale assignments.

Network Memberships: INTA, MARQUES, PTMG, AIPPI, AIPLA, GRUR, VPP, INGRES, LES, CIAPORA, EPI, JIPA

Last updated 8th July 2020

Firm overview

Gün + Partners is a full-service institutional law firm with a strategic international vision, delivering high-quality, commercially astute legal services with 12 partners and over 70 lawyers.

The firm is one of the oldest and largest firms in Turkey and is internationally recognized among the top-tier legal service providers. The firm is based in Istanbul, with working and correspondent offices in Ankara, Izmir and Turkey’s major commercial centers.

Our IP practice, one of the core practice areas of the firm since its foundation, is composed of the following specialized practice groups:

• Patents and utility models,
• Trademarks and designs,
• Copyrights,
• Anti-counterfeiting,
• IP prosecution.

Gün + Partners provides comprehensive advisory, transactional and litigation services covering the full range of patent, trademark and utility model issues, including prosecution, litigation and transactional and advisory matters. The firm combines industry and litigation experience with its extensive IP expertise, which extends to patent-related competition law, regulatory issues and data protection.

The firm also prosecutes all types of IP application, files and defends against oppositions and appeals before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office and challenges the office’s final decisions before specialized courts.

Having expertise in all IP areas places the firm in a unique position in the market for devising and implementing protection and enforcement strategies for IP owners and handling complex IP disputes that involve different IP rights. Thus, it is recognized as the leading IP practice in Turkey, and its IP practice members are recognized as leaders in their respective fields. Life sciences and telecoms, media and technology arethe core industries that the firm’s IP practice concentrates on, in addition to automotive, apparel and consumer goods.

Network Memberships:

• International Bar Association (IBA)
• European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA)
• International Trademark Association (INTA)
• Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)
• International Federation Of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI)
• Marques
• Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG)
• The Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA)
• Association of Trade Mark and Design Law Practitioners (APRAM)
• German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)

Last updated 2nd December 2020

Firm overview

We are a full boutique IP firm, with a team consisting of IP lawyers who all have LL.M degree on IP & IT Law and patent attorneys coming from different technical backgrounds, with some of them having at least 15+ experience and national reputation. We represent and advise R&D departments and and sometimes even legal departments of many universities, and big companies which are leading their industries. We are currently serving more than 1,500 esteemed domestic and international clients, including top patent and trademark filers of Turkey, +25 well-known universities, +10 technology development zones, +40 companies with governmentally supported R&D centers.

We have offices in Istanbul, Bursa, Ankara, İzmir and with the promotion of Ms. Ahu Güneyli as partner of our company in 2019, we also established our first office abroad, in London with her relocation. 

In light of our IP Awareness Project, which initially started as pro-bono work but upon high demand, expended to being one of the main services provided, we have given more than 200+ IP trainings & lectures to the universities and companies, especially which have R&D departments and also many are top-filers in Turkey.

Our own tailor made IT software program enables us to manage and automate our clients’ portfolio, which also provides the possibility of our clients’ direct access with their own accounts/passwords. We receive many positive feedbacks from our clients on our automated and transparent system.

We also hold the ISO 9001:2015 certificate and are the 1st firm in Turkey receiving EFQM Excellence Model Award. 

Our attorneys at law are also experienced trademark attorneys, all holding an LL.M degree on IP & IT Law from international reputed universities, with in-depth knowledge of relevant case law and recent key decisions. Some of them are also certified court experts to act during proceeding before the Specialized Turkish IP Courts. Thus, we successfully handle all legal cases before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) or the courts and also render related services as regards C&D letters, IP investigations and custom recordals.

We also differ from many Turkish IP firms in that our experienced in-house patent attorneys with diverse technical backgrounds effectively support our litigation team in all patent related disputes.

Last updated 1st September 2020

Firm overview

Kenaroglu is a boutique law office based in Istanbul with the liasion offices in Ankara and Izmir. Being internationally orientated and recognised among the top tier legal service providers, Kenaroglu advises its clients in Intellectual Property Law as well as Media and Enternaintment Law and IT and telecoms.
All the lawyers of the firm are certified also as trademark and/or patent attorneys and are bilingual and fluent in English. They are dedicated to providing the highest quality enforcement, prosecution, counseling and litigation services to local and international companies.

The firm’s depth of experience in the areas of practice creates a compelling value proposition for its demanding clients and their complex legal needs, and uniquely enables the firm to provide seamless practical advice and creative solutions on a wide range of legal matters in the most responsive, competent, efficient and effective manner.

Kenaroglu’s client portfolio includes worldwide corporations and leading companies in a wide variety of businesses, including fashion, automotive, media and entertainment, electronics, computer software and hardware, pharmaceuticals. The firm advises its clients with its extensive IP experience covering the whole spectrum of trademark, patent, design and utility model matters and made a name with its capability of creating strategies replying its clients’ exact needs, especially in trademark and patent litigation cases. The firm also prosecutes all kind of IP applications, files and defends against oppositions and appeals before the trademark and patent office as well as preparation of contracts and handling negotiations with a remarkable success.

The attorneys possess extensive experience and a high level of expertise also in copyright law and represent broadcasters and publishers in their challenge with pirate broadcasting and publishing, as well as prepartion of license and all other type of agreements in copyright law.

Kenaroglu acts for clients across the entire industry, from technology to medical device companies, and the firm’s experience in regulatory enables it to develop innovative strategies, to manage not only complex litigation but to help clients in other complex business transactions.

Network Memberships

• International Trademark Association (INTA)
• European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA)
• Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)
• International Federation Of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI)
• Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG)
• Marques

Last updated 11th February 2018