Industrial Design is defined as: “all the various features, such as lines, colors, texture, shape, sound, elasticity, material or other characteristics, perceived by the human senses as constituting the appearance of the whole or part of a product or its ornamentation.”                

The holder of the design rights shall have exclusive rights in relation to the use of the design. Third parties may not, without the consent of the holder of the design rights, produce, place on the market, sell, offer, import, put to commercial use or keep in stock for those purposes any product in which such a design is incorporated or to which it is applied. These exclusive rights arranged and granted under design protection could only be acquired by registration.

Registration process launches by filing an application.

An application for registration of an indusrial design shall be filed together with the following:

(a) a request, the form and contents thereof as specified in the Implementing Regulations, including information identifying the applicant;
(Please contact us for our firm’s Industrial Design Information Form.)

(b) a drawing or painting or graphic, photographic or similar representation of the design in size of 8x8 suitable for reproduction and showing all of its specific features.

The application shall contain a written description of the design (specification) and the list of the products in which it is to be incorporated or to which it is to be applied.

(c) The Power of Attorney Form (Please contact us for our firm’s Power of Attorney Form.)

After filing, Turkish Patent Institute, conducts a formal examination whether the above-mentioned particulars have duly be filed or not. The consequent transaction is the entrance of the application on the Register of Designs and Publication.

A design entered in the Register shall be published in the relevant bulletin with the following particulars:

(a) serial number and date of the filing and, if priority has been claimed, the priority date;

(b) identity of the holder of the design;

(c) identity of the designer or design team;

(d) a drawing or painting or graphic, photographic or similar representation of the design showing all of its specific features;

(e) where a specimen has been deposited, a mention of the deposit;

(f) other particulars prescribed by the Implementing Regulations.     

Any natural or legal persons or related third parties may file a request for invalidation of a possible design registration with the Turkish Patent Institute after the publication thereof. If no request is filed or rejected by TPI, then this application is decided to grant a certificate of registration.