Patents And Utility Models

A patent shall be granted to the inventions in all fields of technology providing that the invention is new, involves an inventive step and is susceptible to industry. Inventions which are new and inventions which can be applied to industry shall be protected by means of giving utility model.

Duration of protection and annual fees

Starting with the application date, the time period of the patent protection is twenty years; the time period of the protection of the utility model is ten years. These time periods shall not be extended.

Our Turkish and European Patent attorney has broad experience in filing both national and international applications. We provide the following services.

• Novelty, prior art and freedom-to-operate search
• Filing and prosecution of patent applications
• Filing PCT applications, EP applications and filing national applications
• Translation
• Patent validations
• Annuity Payments