Trademark Registration
What is a Brand?
Brand, to distinguish goods or services of an enterprise of the goods or services of other enterprises and brand owners provide a clear and precise understanding of the topic of protection provided so that they can get can be shown in the Register, provided that the name of the person, including words, shapes, colors, letters, numbers, sounds, and signs of the goods or the packaging format can consist of all kinds.
Our company checks whether the brand or brands declared by the customers who request a trademark registration application have been registered before by conducting a preliminary examination in the relevant classes. If there is no trademark that is identical or indistinguishably similar to the trademark declared in the relevant classes, the trademark registration application process is initiated by notifying the customer about the trademark registration process by the authorized representative.
Transactions related to all the processes to which the relevant trademark is subject (objection to publication, expressing a counter-opinion, depositing related fees, trademark transfer transactions, withdrawal transactions, trademark renewal transactions, etc.) is performed by the authorized representative. Information about all processes of the brand is notified to the customer in a timely manner.
BRAND OPERATIONS
Trademark Application
It is an application that individuals, companies or organizations make by making a class selection and specifying in which sectors they will use this trademark for the registration of the words, shapes, colors, letters, numbers and sounds they request for registration
Brand Defense
When a brand that appears in the newsletter is objected to by other brand owners, texts and documents containing your opinions against the objection may be submitted within a one-month period.
Objection to Brand Publication
Regarding a trademark that has been partially or fully approved, natural or legal persons and related organizations may object to trademarks that are published within two months from the date of announcement on the grounds that the trademark does not have a distinctive qualification or based on ownership of rights.
Appeal against the Decision
Trademark right holders may object to any transactions related to the trademark by the institution or the transactions you have made related to other trademarks (such as trademark application rejection-partial rejection, trademark defense, expressing a counter-opinion, objection to publication, objection to the decision) by paying the fee within the period.
Brand Document Editing
When the trademark registration decision is notified, the trademark registration fee must be paid within 2 (two) months from the date of notification.
Brand Turnover-Partial Turnover
It is the process of transferring all of the registered trademark or part of the trademark commodity to another person or company.
Brand Monitoring
Registered trademarks or trademarks of imitation of, and to avoid being too similar to be distinguished, the authority of the brands that are applied by other persons or organizations bulletin monitoring, tracking is provided, and similar common brands of Appeals within the period necessary is done by paying the fee.
Brand Renewal
The trademarks whose registration has been completed are renewed by paying the trademark renewal fee after 10 years from the date of application. This process starts 6 months before the expiration date of 10 years and continues until the expiration date of 10 years. The brand renewal fee that has not been paid within the relevant period may be paid with a penalty within 6 months from the date of expiration of the 10-year period.
Foreign Trademark Registration
It is also possible to register trademarks abroad within the scope of the Madrid Protocol.
Change of Address
In the institution, trademark right holders have the opportunity to change their current addresses by informing them.
Title Change
Brand owners are obliged to make title changes before the institution in case of changes in their titles.