ERK Patent, with its experienced staff, offers professional services for filing of designs, renewals, procedures of designs such as change of address and name of the holder, assignment, license, international design applications.

ERK Patent also carries out watch services among the published design applications to find out and report the potentially conflicting designs. Turkey is party to La Haye Convention ( from 01.01.2005) , Paris Convention and TRIPS Agreement.

It is possible to make global industrial design applications for the citizens of Turkish Republic. The most common application procedure for industrial design applications abroad is to assign an attorney in the requested country and make local design application. As a matter of fact Turkey is not one of the leading countries for industrial designs. By the way International agreements are valid in Turkey.

According to Turkish Law, international agreements and conventions which Turkey has been party thereto, cannot be claimed illegitimate. A design, which is registered in Turkey, cannot be accepted as granted in other countries. Since Turkey does not have overseas territories, a design application is bounded with the geographical boundaries of Turkey