INFORMATION ABOUT PATENT PROCESS
Patent is an exclusive right providing a right to prohibit use of your invention by others commercially. Commercial use means for example production, selling, using or importing of a product. For using a patented invention, you may sell (assign) your patent or give a license. What kind of inventions can be patented? (Patentability Criteria) In order that an invention can be patented, it is required to; be new, have an inventive step, be industrial applicable. ...
EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION LEGAL BACKGROUND
European patent and European Patent Convention (EPC) You can get a European Patent valid in member countries of European Patent Convention (EPC) by filing a single application for a European Patent (EP application). The convention has been signed by 38 countries and two countries have additional extension agreements relating to validation of EP grants. Member countries are called as “EPC countries” or “European Patent Organization Member States”. EP applications are processed by EPO and EP...
A QUICK LOOK TO THE HISTORY FROM AYFER BERKKAM
“Easier said than done, we started to work exactly 34 years ago on the date of 03.09.1987 in the capital of Turkey Ankara in a sector which did not have a value and importance at its deserved level during those dates, which was not quite known and we have come to these days as a result of devoted works by overcoming hard periods.” “In these days, there was not trademark and patent attorneyship yet.” The sector consisted of three feet, one feet of the sector was State Institution i...