Designs & Renewals
Design Protection
We offer full services for design protection including filing, registration, and compliance management. Our team ensures your designs are consistently protected and renewed on time, providing peace of mind while you focus on innovation and growth.
Professional Design Service
- Filing and prosecution of national and international design applications
- Filing oppositions against design applications
- Preparing and filing design license agreements
- Undertaking renewals of registered designs
- Preparing and filing design assignment agreements
- Recordal of name/address change
- Translation services
- Legal services
General Information
- Design registration is handled by the Turkish Patent and Trademark.
- Nonresident applicants (excluding those applying through the Madrid Protocol) must be represented by a TurkPatent-authorized trademark attorney.
- The registration process is governed by the Industrial Property Code No. 6769, and Locarno Classification is used for categorizing designs.
- Multiple designs can be filed under the same class, with a maximum of 100 reproductions allowed in a single application.
- Turkey is a member of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Hague Agreement, Paris Convention and World Trade Organization (WTO).
- Priority can be claimed under the Paris Convention, and international registration can be filed under the Hague Agreement.
Required Documents
- Name and address of the applicant
- Name of the designer
- Confidentiality demand for the designer(s) name(s) (optional)
- Name of the product in which the design is incorporated or to which it is applied
- Reproductions in JPEG format (min. 8×8, max. 16×16)
- Description of the design (optional)
- Deferment demand (optional / up to 30 months)
- Information about priority (date, number, country of origin), if any 9. Priority document with its sworn translation in Turkish (can be filed later), if any
Procedure
- Examination: TurkPatent conducts both procedural and novelty examinations (1-6 months) to ensure the design meets formal, substantive, and originality requirements. Novelty is assessed using online tools to check if the design has been previously disclosed globally.
- Publication: If the design passes the examination, it is published in the Official Bulletin. The applicant may request a postponement of publication for up to 30 months from the application or priority date.
- Opposition and Appeals: After publication, third parties can file oppositions. If no opposition is filed or the opposition is rejected by TurkPatent, the design proceeds to registration (2 months).
- Granting Registration: The registration certificate is issued if the design passes all necessary steps and no opposition or appeal blocks it.
- Renewal and Protection Term: A registered design is protected for 5 years from the filing date, with the possibility of renewing for additional five-year periods, up to a maximum of 25 years. Renewal requests should be filed 6 months before the expiration date, or within 6 months after expiration, with an additional fee.
Registered Design and Unregistered Design
The designs are protected as registered designs or unregistered designs.
If the design is registered under the provisions of the IP Code, it will be protected as a registered design. The protection term of a registered design is 5 years from the date of filing. This period may be prolonged in total up to 25 years through renewing in five-year periods.
If the design is made available to the public for the first time in Turkey, it is protected as an unregistered design. The protection period for unregistered designs is 3 years from the date on which the design is first made available to the public.