Intellectual Property Law
Intellectual Property Law; With its conceptual definition, it refers to all the material and moral rights and neighboring rights that people can have over the works they create with knowledge and effort. These works are works in fields such as science, literary works, fine arts and cinema.
Industrial Rights, with its conceptual definition, are on behalf of the first implementers of inventions, innovations, new designs and original works in industry and agriculture; It is an intangible right that allows the marks on the goods produced and sold in the field of trade to distinguish the producer or seller to be registered in the name of their owners, and thus the first adopters to have the right to produce and sell the product for a certain period of time. The rights over inventions, innovations and designs in industry and agriculture constitute the subject of industrial rights.
Intellectual and industrial property law, which is generally collected under seven headings: intellectual and artistic works, integrated circuit topographies, breeder rights on new plant varieties, patent, industrial design, geographical indications and trademark, material and moral rights that may be possessed on a work. It is the branch of law that protects and makes legal regulations regarding these rights. Intellectual and industrial property rights are the rights that a business has regarding all its products, methods, documents, images, identity elements, works of art, and all its original designs and confidential or open information (intangible assets), such as using, transforming into products, and duplicating. rights such as distributing, disseminating and selling. Essentially, intellectual and industrial property is the law of ownership belonging to a person or organization. It covers many topics, from unauthorized use of works to their marketing, from unauthorized reproduction to patent licensing procedures.
Intellectual property in a competitive and globalizing world; It is one of the factors affecting commercial relations, technological developments, investments and, as a result, economic development and growth. Today, since the products produced by all legal and real persons, the works they create, the designs, inventions and innovations they create, and all similar concepts have become vulnerable to infringement and in need of protection, it is also of great importance to protect creative ideas and works in a legal sense. With the recent development of the copying technique as a result of the developments in science and technology, the violation of financial and moral rights arising from ownership of works is increasing day by day, both in our country and in the globalizing world. Intellectual property law, which aims to prevent and protect intellectual and industrial property violations that cause unfair competition and unfair profits and cause serious damage to the economy and constantly renews itself; The fact that it has become an important and specialized area in our judicial system as well as in our socio-economic life, with its contributions to the intellectual, design and legal capacity of our country, has made it necessary for lawyers to specialize in these subjects themselves.
The protection provided by specialization in intellectual and industrial property law and rights; It contributes to economic growth by encouraging the production of quality products and services, maintaining fair competition, sustaining innovation and creativity, encouraging new technologies, artistic activities and inventions. Therefore, obtaining legal services from lawyers who have legal equipment and experience and are knowledgeable about basic sciences and innovative technologies can be of crucial importance in achieving commercial goals.
Sertbay Law Firm, with its knowledge and experience; It provides consultancy and legal services to its clients on all matters of intellectual and industrial property law, especially trademark, patent, utility model, design, license and copyright issues. Regarding these rights, in addition to providing our clients with the most appropriate road map through in-depth research on pre-registration research, execution of transactions regarding registration applications and licensing, as well as protection of trade secrets, copyrights, ideas, works of art, trademarks, patents, designs, and their use or use. Our legal services include preparing license or transfer agreements, making trademark registration applications, preparing financial rights transfer agreements, and filing and pursuing all kinds of lawsuits regarding trademark rights and unfair competition. To stop the unfair and unlawful use and violations of our clients' trademarks by third parties, which they have real rights to, to invalidate the unfair registrations received in this context, to take precautionary measures against and against the usurpation of trademark rights and violations of intellectual and industrial property rights, and to file all kinds of lawsuits against our clients.It provides legal support and services to its provinces.
The main legal services we provide in the field of Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights Property Law are as follows:
Making all kinds of applications regarding trademarks, copyrights and patents at the TRNC Registry of Companies Intellectual and Industrial Property Department, following up and finalizing these works
Preparation, filing, tracking and finalization of all documents required for trademark, patent and name registrations in the relevant classes
Renewal or transfer of registered trademarks
Registration of usage rights of registered trademarks to third parties
Applications for compensation and interim orders to the Court in case of use of Passing-Off and counterfeit products
