A|T|A Turkish Patent & Trademark Law Group

Service Areas 

Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group is committed to providing the highest level of client services in a wide variety of practice areas. The expertise and specialization of our attorneys and the forging of a team approach to problem solving enables us to address and meet your particular challenge with the application of the most appropriate talents and experience. We invite you to learn more about our practice areas, meet our teams and communicate directly with the attorneys who comprise them.

Please go to below links to get more information regarding each practice area.

Turkish Franchising Law

Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group attorneys also have particular experience in the area of franchising, and we have counseled and represented many companies in employing this method of expansion, both domestically and internationally. Franchising is a method of distribution that combines the advantages of a branded, centralized, specialized system with the capital and micro-management of local independent business persons to produce a market competitor with critical mass. It can leverage a business's success far beyond its own capital and management resources.

Franchising's inherent geographic expansiveness and long-term business relationships cause it to be affected by an array of dynamic Turkish laws. While these various laws and regulations can be ambiguous and confusing and can create risks such as inadvertent franchising, Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group attorneys have the knowledge and expertise to guide our clients to minimize these risks.

The firm regularly represents both franchisors and franchisees. These activities include counseling franchisors regarding disclosure requirements, creating disclosure documents, obtaining registrations in states which require them and assisting in the negotiations with prospective franchisees. The firm also represents its clients in franchise litigation and disputes.

Turkish Copyrights Law

Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group attorneys provide a broad range of copyright services, including the acquisition of certificates of copyright registration for such items as books, jewelry, musical compositions, recordings, plays, artistic creations, and computer software. The firm's IP attorneys counsel and assist clients in transferring interests in copyrighted works and represent them in copyright infringement cases, ranging from computer software, to ornamental designs, to architectural works.

Turkish Trade Secrets Law

Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group’s IP attorneys work closely with their clients to create programs to identify, protect, and promote assets which are not protected by issued patents, trademarks, or copyrights. Valuable information not to be disclosed to the public is often protected as a trade secret. Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group IP attorneys counsel clients on how to identify such information and to police its protection through secrecy programs, confidentiality agreements and seminars. We also assist our clients in transferring trade secret technology and protecting it through negotiations and litigation.

Intellectual Property Audits in Turkey

To help our clients develop an overarching strategy for their intellectual property, Ata Turkish Patent & Trademark Group attorneys conduct independent audits of intellectual property assets. These audits can include risk evaluations of intellectual property in order to recognize and manage risk.

An intellectual property audit can help educate clients on internal development and management of intellectual property assets, identify core and non-core assets, identify potential third party infringers and licensing opportunities, and ensure compliance with current intellectual property contracts, such as licenses.

These IP audit results facilitate development and strategic protection and enforcement of valuable intellectual property and to integrate an intellectual property strategy with a client's business plan and litigation strategy so as to maximize revenue generation.