Employees’ Inventions In The Scope Of Turkish Industrial Property Code

Legislator wants to protect worker’s effort and incentivize them to make innovation. In this respect, Turkish Industrial Property Code Law No: 6769 (“IPC”) not only secures the employee when an invention created but also protects employer’s contribution.

IPC categorizes the employees’ inventions in to two groups:

Service Inventions
Independent Inventions

According to the description given by the IPC; a service invention is the invention that is created by an employee

i.) while fulfilling his/her duties that is […]

By | August 28th, 2017 ||

USA: Patent Prosecutors Beware

A recent written decision by the PTAB in connection with an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding is a reminder to patent prosecutors to carefully consider the possible construction of claim terms in a continuation or divisional application of earlier filed patent applications and the entitlement of the claim to priority to those earlier filed patent applications, which have published prior to the filing date of the continuation or divisional application. In addition, the decision serves as […]

By | August 17th, 2017 ||

Vietnam: Customs Procedures Handling Of Exported And Imported Goods Infringing Intellectual Property Rights

On conducting customs procedures for exported or imported goods, the customs authority shall be responsible to inspect and compare the declared information of the goods owners on the written customs declarations on goods’ names, trademarks, origin, value,…; Inspect and compare the concluded contents of the State management agencies on the exported or imported goods; Results of customs dossiers inspection with the results of goods actual inspection; To compare the said inspection results with the […]

By | August 13th, 2017 ||