ERK Patent is a law firm based in Head Office Istanbul providing legal services to local and international clients throughout Turkey and assisting clients in foreign jurisdictions. ERK Patent is a general service firm focusing on the commercial, corporate, intellectual property and administrative regulatory areas, especially in the pharmaceutical, energy and telecommunication sectors. The information provided on this web site is not an invitation to form an attorney - client relationship and should not be considered so.

If you wish to obtain information about our services and our terms and conditions you may contact the relevant attorney of our firm by our general contact adresses and numbers.. Trademarks, patents and industrial designs, bestow the proprietors of these registrations a genuine right. The IP rights will have a meaning if they have the opportunity of enforcement. A non-enforced right does not have an importance.

A right will have a meaning in condition that it is recognized by the legal system. The law exists in order to protect a right. A non-protected right will remain meaningless on the papers. Non-enforcement of a right will weaken the power thereof. The authorities who will conduct the enforcement procedure are the courts and other judicial authorities.

Unfortunately the state organs do not intervene into infringement of a protected right. The lapse point of the proprietors is that they consider the state to be active in all aspects of protection as well as coming into action without a demand or complaint. As a matter of fact, even the criminal procedure depends on action of the proprietor, the state authorities will never act without a demand. For example a fake product which is being sold in a market, cannot be confiscated by a passer-by state officer if there is no complaint or demand of the proprietor.

The whole initiation of the rights is left to the whole discretion of the proprietor of the right. No one can force a right owner to sue a third party or blame the owner for not acting so. The IP rights have a broad scope of protection in Turkey. A right owner can get benefit from these rights with the help of law and legal system. These rights grant the owner literally an exclusive monopoly right. Our legal department offers a service for protection of all IP rights including litigation.