In the reports published by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), Turkey appears to be one of the biggest sources of counterfeit products in the world. Accordingly, Turkey poses a significant role for determination and implementation of legal and administrative strategies to combat counterfeiting.
Our primary goal is to protect the trademark rights of our clients in the most comprehensive way in the domestic market before the customs and in transit area with our team of attorneys at law, internal investigators and external partners, all specialized in anti-counterfeiting.
Customs:
The services we provide before the customs throughout Turkey include but not limited to registering, renewing and monitoring our clients' trademarks within the Customs Surveillance System, examining the goods seized at the customs under being counterfeit suspicious, evaluating and advising on the further legal and administrative actions to be taken and handling destruction proceedings of the detected counterfeit products.
We do also have an active role in organization of customs trainings to increase the brand awareness as the side of the customs and create a close connection between the brand owners and administrators monitoring and protecting their rights.
Raids and Seziures:
Filing criminal complaints against infringers for the seizure of counterfeit products detected in the domestic market, handling the following legal proceedings and conducting raids & seizures are among the main services we provide to our clients for within this scope.
Our team of specialized and experienced attorneys at law are capable to organize and conduct simultaneous raids and seizures in multiple provinces, which assures the most effective results to our clients even in complex files.
Having our internal investigation team also plays a key role for execution of the proceedings before raids and seizures in the most reliable manner.
Criminal Court Actions:
Our team of attorneys at law specialized in criminal proceedings represents our clients before the Criminal Courts of Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights, Regional Courts and Courts of Appeals in criminal court actions related to intellectual and industrial rights.
Our boutique approach and years of experience in the field of intellectual and industrial property rights, enables us to provide the most effective and efficient legal solutions for the needs of our clients from various sectors.
Investigations:
Our internal investigation department, consisting of investigators specialized especially in fashion, automotive, spirits and pharma industries, provides wide range of investigation services to our clients for tackling counterfeiting, including organization of provincial, regional and country-based market investigations for detection of counterfeit products or online channels selling counterfeits.
In addition to the services carried out by our internal investigation team, we also cooperate with independent investigation firms in line with the expectations of our clients and the scope of the process.