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    • Address: Ömer Avni Mahallesi Inebolu Sokak no 5 Deriş Binası, Setüstü, Kabataş, Beyoğlu, İstanbul
    • Email: [email protected]
    • Phone: +90 (212) 252 61 22
    • Website: www.deris.com
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    Deriş Attorney-At-Law Partnership provides fast, reliable and tailored consulting and legal services to clients looking to settle disputes relating to trademarks, patents, industrial designs and other IP and industrial property rights.

    Based in Istanbul, Deriş has a 110-year history pertaining to the establishment of IP rights, as well as the protection and enforcement of such rights.

    Today, Deriş consists of two legal entities: Deriş Patents and Trademarks Agency AS, which counsels, files, prosecutes, registers and manages IP rights worldwide; and Deriş Attorney-At-Law Partnership, which provides legal counsel, assistance in contentious and non-contentious matters and representation before the IP, civil and commercial courts.

    The team consists of more than 85 with IP Litigators, European Patent Attorneys, Trademark and Patent Attorneys and the supporting teams. The Firm is ranked as a top tier IP Law Firm by the international ranking magazines such as LEGAL500, WTR1000, IAM 1000, IPSTAR, MANAGING IP.

    The firm has been awarded and certified as a Great Place to Work in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. The firm’s key strategy objective is “Compliance and Benchmarking with Global Standards”. In line with this strategy, in 2021 the firm’s information security management system obtained the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification. Deriş has also joined the United Nations Global Compact initiative, which is a voluntary leadership platform for the development implementation and disclosure of responsible business practice.


    Partners

    M. N. Aydın Deriş (Founding Partner)

    N. Serra Coral (Managing Partner)

    E. Kerim Yardımcı (Senior Partner)

    Okan Çan (Senior Partner)

    Oya Yalvaç (Partner)

    Feride Utku (Partner)

    Muazzez Korutürk (Partner)


    IP Practice

    Deriş exclusively handles IP, IT and media-related contentious or non-contentious matters. The partnership adopts an agile and cost-conscious approach, pragmatically combining and coordinating tailored solutions in complex matters; this approach involves developing IP awareness and enforcement strategies; conducting investigations on counterfeits and evaluating their results; preparing and organising customs seizure of counterfeit goods; serving cease and desist letters to prevent infringing acts; conducting negotiations for settlement agreements; and instituting civil and criminal court actions. Deriş also has a strong patent litigation and prosecution team made up of litigators and Turkish and European patent attorneys. Deriş also has a strong patent litigation and prosecution team made up of litigators and Turkish and European patent attorneys.

    In addition to its thriving litigation practice, Deriş is also experienced using alternative dispute resolution before or during litigation. In this respect, the team enjoys strong connections with the WIPO Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre and actively participates in arbitration and mediation training. Mr Yardımcı has been appointed as a panellist and arbitrator before WIPO for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy matters. Mr Çan has been appointed as a chartered mediator with another member of the firm before the Ministry of Justice in Turkey.

    Deriş provides the full range of IP protection services such as drafting, preparing, filing and prosecuting the application of industrial property rights in Turkey directly and through its first-rate worldwide collaborators in other countries. As Turkey is a member of international conventions such as the Madrid Protocol, the Hague Agreement, the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the European Patent Convention, Deriş files and prosecutes international trademark, design and patent applications directly under these conventions.

    In recognition of the value of IP assets, Deriş is structured to provide services proactively and to offer clients a complete range of legal services. Personalised collaboration with clients is key to the firm’s approach; the team believes in fostering close working relationships that result in long-term partnerships.

    With this in mind, Deriş’s approach is holistic and aims to facilitate business decisions made by acting analytically and proactively to identify upfront potential sources of conflict; eliminate legal uncertainty; and understand and assess each and every detail that might affect the parameters of protection and enforcement. This helps avoid unnecessary litigation and ensure a trouble-free and uninterrupted operation.


    Specialties

    • Intellectual Property
    • Trademark Litigation
    • Patent Litigation
    • Trademark and Patent Prosecution
    • Anti-counterfeiting
    • Personal Data Protection
    • IP and IT Transactions
    • IP Due Diligence
    • Technology Licensing
    • Copyright
    • Unfair Competition
    • Trade Secrets
    • Media and Entertainment Law
    • Consumer Law
    • IT Law
    • Reputation Management                               

    Key Contacts

    Awards

    An Overall Evaluation After the Appeal Decisions in the UK, EPO and in Australia on DABUS Applications

    It will be recalled that, in the subject applications, the applicant Dr. Thaler has designated AI (DABUS)as inventor and claimed that he derived the “right to the patent by virtue of being its creator and owner”. The applicant asserted that the “inventions had been created autonomously” as DABUS, the so-called, “the creativity machine” “produces new ideas and mimics the human brain’s major cognitive circuit: the thalamocortical loop.”
    Mehmet Nazım Aydın Deriş

    Video Games: IP Considerations

    IP lawyers and advisors to video game firms must be creative. This is because: the financial value of the video game industry is high and has been increasing dramatically, especially during the covid-19 pandemic;it is important to address the global reach of the video game industry, but to treat it from a local law perspective;numerous actors are involved in the video game industry; andvideo games are complex works of authorship, comprising diverse IP rights.
    Okan Çan

    Does Turkey Protect Second Medical Use Patents?

    In our opinion, the General Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court shall acknowledge the will of the Parliament to include the decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal. Therefore, EPC 1973 shall be implemented together with reference decisions and second medical use patents should be protected. Since there are no exclusions to the protection of second medical use patents in the IP Code, they should be protected in Turkey as long as they are novel and include inventive step.
    Muazzez Koruturk

    Patent Enforcement at the Borders

    Geographically positioned between Europe and Asia, Turkey is a strategically placed country, with a population of 82 million and a larger youth population than any EU member state. Taking its place on the list of G20 countries, Turkey aims to position itself in the global value chain and strengthen its export platform by focusing on high-tech patents, including electronic machinery and equipment, automotive spare parts, railway and maritime transport, and energy generation and efficiency projects. In addition, as a natural transport hub, Turkey is a transitional trade platform between Europe and Asia, which significantly increases the relevance of appropriate IP rights protection.
    Nükhet Serra Coral
    Emre Kerim Yardımcı
    Okan Çan