A|T|A Turkish Patent & Trademark Law Group

Turkish IP Litigation Lawyers

Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group’s Litigation section today carries on the traditions of over 12 years of courtroom practice, representing clients in a broad range of commercial and IP lawsuits. The firm's Litigation section is one of Turkey’s largest in Turkey.

The firm's trial attorneys actively work to improve state judiciary by participating as members of advisory committees to improve the speed and efficiency of the national courts. Many of the firm's litigation attorneys have previous professional experience that provides helpful insight into our clients' needs and business practices. The firm's Litigation section includes attorneys with prior government experience.

While many of the firm's clients look to us for representation in traditional business and tort actions, the firm's attorneys are also accustomed to handling matters involving complex and unique legal and factual issues. The firm has coordinated the efforts of several law firms to manage litigation encompassing hundreds of factual and legal issues and millions of pages of relevant documents. The firm's experience has led clients to call upon Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group to handle their most crucial, time-intensive litigation matters, such as hostile takeovers and "emergency" actions seeking to enjoin or avoid injunctions of business activities. Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group attorneys have regularly been involved with the trial and appeal of numerous cases of first impression, including intellectual property matters, civil rights matters, litigation under securities laws, and banking and lender liability questions.

The application of available technology to provide cost-effective litigation services to our clients is a priority at Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group. The firm offers in-house computerized database and transcript management facilities using state-of-the-art hardware and software systems, and attorneys, paralegals, and technical staff skilled in the use of these tools. Additionally, the firm has in house capabilities for the development of trial graphics and staff trained to implement the system during trial.

Antitrust Litigation

Our attorneys have played a lead role in major antitrust suits in Turkish courts, in arbitration tribunals, before the Turkish Trade Commission, and before the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Our antitrust clients include companies and organizations from a wide array of businesses, industries, and professions, including banking and financial services, insurance, franchising, energy and utilities, health care, restaurants, hotels, broadcasting, and bookselling, as well as trade associations and charitable organizations. Our attorneys have handled claims relating to price-fixing, territorial allocation, tying, exclusive dealing, monopolization, attempt to monopolize, and price discrimination. We have represented claimants and defendants. We have defended mergers from antitrust challenge, and have challenged hostile tender offers on antitrust grounds.

Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group attorneys have taken leadership roles in the antitrust litigation in Turkey.

Turkish Appellate Law 

Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group's Appellate Law Group enjoys recognized success nationwide, as evidenced by numerous reported cases in Turkish courts throughout Turkey. Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group attorneys have many years of experience handling appellate matters, especially in precedent-setting cases. Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group attorneys also have served as adjunct professors of law, have written on the subject of judicial selection and other issues affecting appellate practice, and have worked as former law clerks to state judges.

Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group 
attorneys have represented clients on many of the key legal issues in the practice of civil law. Since the firm’s founding, Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group lawyers have briefed and argued hundreds of cases in Turkish appellate courts including cases filed in the Turkish Supreme Court.

IP Litigation

Winning an IP case is the product of experience and the execution of a skillful, balanced strategy. In litigation, Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group capitalizes on its attorneys' experience in having filed and prosecuted hundreds of trademark, patent, and copyright applications. Our teams of IP attorneys and trial lawyers have litigated all types of intellectual property matters in Turkish IP courts and the Supreme Court.

Clients confronted with disputes involving their patents, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, trade secrets, or copyrights can rely on our experienced litigators to aggressively defend their interests in matters extending from infringement claims to unfair competition to disputes over commercial licensing agreements. We assist our clients in all stages of intellectual property conflicts and resolution of the conflict, from pre-litigation analysis and communications through final verdict and, if necessary, appeal.

Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group attorneys have successfully represented numerous corporations, including Fortune 500 companies, in infringement lawsuits involving intellectual property. Our experience includes successful appeals to Turkish Supreme Court. Our IP trial lawyers have also enforced and defended our clients' intellectual property rights in arbitrations, alternative dispute forums, and proceedings before the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce.

We actively monitor the use of our clients' intellectual property, and we can act quickly to enforce these various rights against infringers through the effective use of temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions. With vast experience in both prosecuting and defending litigation cases involving patents, trademarks, and copyrights, we have been successful in recovering damages and quickly obtaining injunctions for our clients. In some cases, our commercial litigation experience allows us to resolve licensing and contract disputes quickly and efficiently.