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Eight service areas covering the full life of an industrial property right: searches and filing strategy, prosecution before TÜRKPATENT, international registration through Madrid, the PCT, the Hague System and EUIPO, watch and renewal programmes, recordals, domain names and geographical indications.

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04International Filing SystemsProtection stops at the border unless it is filed abroad. We run international programmes through the Madrid Protocol, the PCT, the European patent route, the Hague System and EUIPO, and directly through associates where a national filing works better.

International Filing Systems

Protection stops at the border unless it is filed abroad. We run international programmes through the Madrid Protocol, the PCT, the European patent route, the Hague System and EUIPO, and directly through associates where a national filing works better. Every programme starts from the same two questions: which markets the products actually reach, and what the budget can carry over the next five years.

Everything abroad is timed from the first filing. A trade mark or design carries a six month priority right and a patent twelve months, and those dates set the shape of the whole programme: which countries can still be reached on the original date, and when the money has to be ready. We map the priority window against the export plan at the outset, because a market added after the window closes is filed as a fresh application and is measured against everything published in the meantime.

An international registration under the Madrid Protocol stays tied to the base application for five years. If the base falls, the international registration falls with it, and the only remedy is transformation into national applications at national cost. We watch that dependency for the whole period rather than closing the file at registration. Where a designated office issues a provisional refusal, the response must be filed through a representative admitted in that country, so we keep an associate network in place and prepare the substance of the reply here before it goes out.

The PCT buys thirty or thirty one months from the priority date before national phase costs begin, and the international search report tells the applicant whether those costs are worth committing. The European route consolidates examination and then splits into validations, each with its own translation requirements and annual fee profile. The Hague System registers designs across contracting parties from a single application, subject to each office keeping its own refusal grounds. We set out the deadlines and the expected spend for every option before the choice is made.

Proceedings before foreign courts, assessments of infringement risk in an export market and disputes over ownership sit outside this office; they are handled by our law firm Devin Law & IP at devinlaw.com.tr, working with local counsel where the forum requires it. What we do here is keep the international file in a state that survives scrutiny: a clean chain of title, recorded assignments, consistent lists of goods and services, and a documented reason for every country on the list.

The Madrid System registers a trade mark in many countries from one application, but it is not a single right: each designated office examines under its own rules and may refuse. This group covers the base filing, the designations, the responses to provisional refusals and the later extensions that follow the export map as it changes.

Base Application & Designations
  • Review of the base application or registration before the international application leaves
  • Alignment of the goods and services list with what each designated office accepts
  • Selection of designated countries according to export volumes and distribution agreements
  • Filing through TÜRKPATENT as office of origin and follow up with the International Bureau
  • Fee calculation per designated party, including individual fees where they apply
  • Monitoring of the five year dependency period on the base application or registration
  • Transformation into national applications where a central attack removes the base right
  • Written record of why each designation was made, kept for later budget reviews
Provisional Refusals
  • Docketing of provisional refusal notifications and the response deadline of each office
  • Analysis of the cited earlier rights and the practice of the refusing office
  • Instruction of a local representative where the office requires admitted representation
  • Preparation of the substance of the reply here before it is filed abroad
  • Limitation of the goods and services list where a partial refusal can be cured
  • Negotiation of consent letters or coexistence terms with the holder of the cited right
  • Reporting on prospects and cost before any appeal step is authorised abroad
  • Recordal of the final decision so the portfolio reflects the true scope granted
Subsequent Designations
  • Extension of an existing international registration to new markets as exports develop
  • Cost comparison between a subsequent designation and a direct national filing
  • Check of the goods and services list before it is carried into a new country
  • Renewal of the whole international registration in one operation every ten years
  • Recordal of change of name, address, ownership and licence at the International Bureau
  • Central management of the registration so national files do not drift apart
  • Review of designations that no longer match the current commercial footprint
Five year dependency on the baseFor five years the international registration depends on the base application or registration. If the base is refused, withdrawn or cancelled, the international registration falls with it in every designated country, which is why the base file is monitored until the period ends.
Central attack and transformationA successful attack on the base right within the dependency period can bring down all designations at once. Transformation converts each designation into a national application keeping the original date, but at national fees, so the exposure is calculated before it happens.
Local representative for refusalsMost offices require a representative admitted in that country to file a reply to a provisional refusal. We prepare the argument and the evidence here and instruct the associate, so the substance stays under one hand while the formality is met locally.
One renewal, one portfolioThe international registration is renewed every ten years in a single operation covering all designations, and changes of name or ownership are recorded once at the International Bureau. That central handling is the practical saving the system offers.

Patents and designs travel by their own routes. This group covers the PCT international phase that postpones the cost of a decision, the European patent route that consolidates examination before splitting into national validations, and the Hague System for designs. In each of them the deadline calendar and the spending profile are prepared before the route is chosen.

PCT International Phase
  • Filing of the international application within twelve months of the priority date
  • Choice of the International Searching Authority according to cost, language and speed
  • Reading of the search report and written opinion before national phase money is spent
  • Amendment of the claims under Article 19 or during international preliminary examination
  • Country shortlist prepared before the thirty month national phase deadline arrives
  • Translation planning and budgeting for each national phase entry separately
  • Instruction of associates for national phase entry and follow up of office actions
  • Reassessment of the shortlist where the search report changes the value of the case
European Patent Route
  • Filing before the EPO directly or through the national phase of a PCT application
  • Responses to search opinions and examination reports prepared with the granted scope in mind
  • Claim amendments checked against added matter objections before they are filed
  • Validation planning across the states where the product is made or sold
  • Translation requirements and validation costs set out per state before grant
  • Annual fee management after grant for every validated national part
  • Monitoring of the opposition period and of oppositions filed by third parties
Hague Design Registrations
  • Registration of designs in several contracting parties from a single international application
  • Preparation of visuals that satisfy the strictest of the designated offices
  • Deferment of publication where the product launch has not yet taken place
  • Handling of refusals issued by individual offices under their own examination rules
  • Renewal in five year terms managed centrally for all designated parties
  • Comparison of the Hague route with direct filings in the same countries
  • Coordination with the Turkish and EUIPO design files of the same product
Thirty months of thinking timeThe PCT does not grant a patent. It holds the priority date while the search report and written opinion arrive, giving the applicant up to thirty or thirty one months to decide which countries deserve the national phase cost.
Search report guides the budgetThe international search report and written opinion are the first serious reading of the prior art. A poor report is a reason to narrow the country list or to redraft the claims, and it usually saves more money than it costs.
Grant, then validationA European patent is examined once and then becomes a bundle of national parts, each needing validation, translations where required and its own annual fees. The validation list is therefore a commercial decision taken shortly before grant.
One filing, separate examinationsThe Hague System centralises the filing and the renewals, but each designated office keeps its own refusal grounds and its own examination practice. Visuals are therefore prepared to satisfy the strictest office among those designated.

Some markets are best reached directly. This group covers filings before EUIPO for the European Union, the associate network used for countries outside the international systems, and the country and budget planning that decides the whole programme. The aim is a portfolio that matches where the goods are actually sold rather than a list assembled by habit.

EUIPO Trademarks & Designs
  • European Union trade mark applications covering all member states in one filing
  • Registered Community design filings, alone or together with the Hague route
  • Prior rights searches across national registers before the EU application is filed
  • Opposition and defence before EUIPO within the periods set by the office
  • Proof of use where an opponent's earlier mark is open to a use requirement
  • Conversion into national applications where a single earlier right blocks the whole EU
  • Renewals, recordals and seniority claims kept aligned with the national portfolio
Associate Network
  • Correspondents selected in each jurisdiction for their field experience and not for the fee alone
  • Instructions prepared here in full so the associate is not left to interpret
  • Fixed quotations obtained before work is authorised in any foreign jurisdiction
  • Direct national filings where a country is outside the international systems
  • Consistent documents across jurisdictions: powers of attorney, assignments and priority documents
  • Single point of contact for the client, with all correspondence held in one file
  • Quality review of associate output before it reaches the client or the office
Country Strategy & Budget
  • Country selection driven by export figures, distributor locations and manufacturing sites
  • Distinction between markets to protect and markets where counterfeiting originates
  • Multi year budget showing filing, prosecution, renewal and annual fee obligations
  • Priority ordering of countries where the budget cannot cover the whole list at once
  • Comparison of the international system cost with direct filing in the same countries
  • Review of the portfolio each year against the actual sales map of the group
  • Written strategy note that records why each country was kept or dropped
Priority right sets the calendarSix months for trade marks and designs, twelve months for patents, counted from the first filing. Applications made inside the window keep the original date; anything later is judged against everything published in the meantime, which is where most value is lost.
EU rights are all or nothingA European Union trade mark covers every member state, but a single earlier right in one country can block it entirely. Conversion into national applications preserves the date, so the exposure is checked by search before the EU route is chosen.
Countries follow the export mapThe country list is drawn from export figures, distributor locations and manufacturing sites, not from a standard package. Markets where counterfeit goods originate are treated separately, because protection there serves enforcement rather than sales.
Disputes abroad go elsewhereLitigation before foreign courts, opinions on infringement risk and ownership disputes are conducted by Devin Law & IP at devinlaw.com.tr with local counsel. Our part is the register work: filings, deadlines, recordals and a documented reason for every designation.

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