Türkiye

Firm overview

Moroğlu Arseven has wide-ranging experience in all fields of intellectual property, including counselling, enforcement, transactional and litigation matters, as well as strategic cross-border management of portfolios and disputes.

High-profile international brands and right owners regularly engage Moroğlu Arseven, based on its reputation for delivering results, as well as effectively establishing, strengthening, enforcing and commercialising intellectual and industrial rights in Turkey.

Moroğlu Arseven is a full-service firm, boasting one of the largest dedicated intellectual property practices in Turkey within such a format. Intellectual property advice is integrated with the firm’s corporate counselling in complex matters involving regulatory, corporate and commercial aspects, as well as vice versa. Such crossover allows end-to-end support with planning and executing intellectual property transactions. Advice regularly involves developing strategies, making risk assessments and negotiating to transfer or license rights, often with parties based in different jurisdictions.

Led by Işık Özdoğan, the firm’s five dedicated intellectual property partners have worked together more than a decade. Their work ethic, close communication with clients and experience with innovative cases distinguish them from other intellectual property professionals in Turkey. Each of the five receives regular awards for their work from organisations such as Managing Intellectual Property, The Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, World Trademark Review and IAM Patent.

Clients appreciate the firm’s responsive, clear and concise answers to legal questions, as well as its knowledge of their business goals, usually based on long-lasting relationships. The firm’s lawyers have a reputation for being honest with clients about their strategic interests, even where this means not moving forward with a legal action if a positive result is unlikely, or the action does not support the client’s wider strategies.

The firm manages portfolios for a number of high-profile brands where intellectual property is central to their commercial decision making. The firm’s advice and risk assessments have been integral to guiding clients’ commercial operations and decisions about whether (and how) to launch new product lines in Turkey. Several successful market clean-ups have opened the door for clients to launch their Turkish businesses, when previously they could not.

The firm’s international experience and expertise in foreign requirements are valuable to clients. These skills allow lawyers to address client concerns quickly and cost-effectively, advising on how local requirements will sit within global intellectual property portfolios and strategies. The firm is regularly engaged in complex negotiations, often including multiple parties and viewpoints. Moroğlu Arseven’s lawyers advise across a range of industries, negotiating settlements, assignments, coexistence agreements and licences for intellectual property rights.

Customised anti-counterfeiting and market clean-up projects are among Moroğlu Arseven’s strengths. High-profile brands often engage Moroğlu Arseven to deal with commercially sensitive or high-risk issues in Turkey – a notoriously difficult jurisdiction for intellectual property infringement.

Moroğlu Arseven has an unrivalled reputation as a thought leader for Turkish intellectual property matters (articles). The firm’s lawyers regularly write articles and provide insight on intellectual property law, as well as related topics where intellectual property law overlaps with other legal areas (eg, regulated industry sectors, unfair competition, trade dress and internet issues).

Firm overview

SEKA Consulting Law IP, with extensive experience accumulated by its founders and dedicated partners over long years, has developed a deeply ingrained culture of professionalism that is founded on transparency, integrity, and shared values. These core values prioritize delivering sustainable and comprehensive intellectual property law services while assembling teams with specialized knowledge and skills across the full spectrum of IP law. This approach allows SEKA Consulting Law IP to offer high-quality, tailored solutions that address the unique needs of clients in various industries and jurisdictions, thereby supporting outreach efforts on a global scale.

With a robust team of seasoned trademark and patent attorneys, each bringing expertise in specific areas of intellectual property law, SEKA Consulting Law IP provides strategic guidance and legal support to clients from around the world. Through its structured practice groups, the firm ensures that clients receive specialized attention and effective representation in areas such as trademark prosecution, patent registration, copyright services, design protection, and IP litigation. SEKA Consulting Law IP is committed to fostering and strengthening long-term client relationships by consistently delivering exceptional legal services and safeguarding clients' intellectual property rights.

In addition to its legal expertise, SEKA Consulting Law IP places high importance on diversity, continuous education, and raising awareness about intellectual property matters. By prioritizing these values, SEKA Consulting Law IP aims to not only create an inclusive and supportive environment within the firm but also to contribute positively to the broader IP landscape. This commitment to excellence and growth underscores SEKA Consulting Law IP’s mission to be a trusted partner and leader in the field of intellectual property law worldwide.

Firm overview

Gün + Partners is a full-service institutional law firm with a strategic international vision, delivering high-quality, commercially astute legal services with 13 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.

Firm overview

Empowering today shaping tomorrow.

From 1912 to future.

Founded in 1912 and managed by the 4th generation, Deris has established a boutique IP company providing services in all areas of intellectual property, on the strong foundation laid a century ago. It brings together the experience and culture of the past, the dynamics of the current period and expectations for the future. Today, Deris is one of the largest IP firms in Turkey and is internationally recognized among the top-tier legal service providers which plays a leading role in the development of IP landscape in Turkey.