Country Specific Issues
- Legal System
(civil/common law)
Law References
Industrial Property Code No. 6769 of December 22, 2016 (Industrial
Property Code)
Regulation on the Implementation of the
Industrial Property Code No. 6769 (Implementing Regulation under
Industrial Property Code)
Commentary
Turkey has a civil law system. There used to be individual
legislations (Decree Laws) for each intellectual property right and
registered design rights were protected under the provisions of
Decree Law No. 554 of June 24, 1995 on the Protection of Industrial
Designs (Industrial Designs Decree Law). However, the new
Industrial Property Code no. 6769 of December 22, 2016 (IP Code)
entered into force on January 10, 2017 and replaced and repealed
the Decree Laws pertaining to intellectual property rights,
including the Industrial Designs Decree Law, by bringing all those
rights together within the ambit of a single Code. The design
chapter (Book III) of the IP Code includes changes which seek to
achieve greater compliance with the relevant directives of European
Union.
Case Law
No applicable case law
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