Patent

Effort to halt Turkey’s patenting ‘Turkaegean’

Greece is trying to prevent Turkey from patenting its "Turkaegean" trademark used in its tourism campaign in the United States and the European Union. To this end, it has hired Washington, DC-based law firm Steptoe & Johnson, which specializes, among other things, in so-called high-stakes litigation involving trade and border disputes.

Turkey gets 95,373 trademark applications in 1st half of 2021

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TurkPatent) received 95,373 trademark applications in the first half of 2021, official figures showed on July 26. 

Of those, 87,919, or 92.2%, were domestic, according to a TurkPatent report.

The office received 8,101 patent applications during the same period - 3,570 domestic and 4,531 foreign.

Turkey takes nearly 37,000 trademark applications in Q1

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TurkPatent) received 36,838 trademark applications- 32,877 of them domestic- in the first three months of the current year, official figures showed on April 20. 

The number of trademark applications increased 14% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2020, according to the TurkPatent data.

Greek PM backs joint EU purchase of patent rights for Covid-19 vaccine, tests

In comments to Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has backed a proposal by health policy professor and government adviser Ilias Mosialos for European Union countries to jointly purchase patent rights for new vaccines and rapid tests for the detection of coronavirus in a bid to respond more effectively to curbing the pandemic.

China Is Introducing Strict Intellectual Property Protection System

The head of the State Intellectual Property Administration (NIPA) has announced that the country will strictly implement a strict intellectual property protection system and will not stop building a good environment for innovation and business.

Shen Changyu, director of NIPA, made the comment at the 10th China Intellectual Property Conference in Hangzhou.

BSMEPA Declares Support for the Initiatives of the Union of Inventors of Bulgaria

Opportunities to support the Union of Inventors of Bulgaria (UIB) were discussed at a meeting today in Bulgarian Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Promotion Agency (BSMEPA). The Executive Director of BSMEPA Dr. Boyko Takov and the Chairman of the Union of Inventors of Bulgaria Mr.

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