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The Supreme Council decided on additional measures by noting that there is no such situation as a complete cessation of judicial services during the postponement period and the criminal complaints will keep being accepted in this term as well.

In connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, Turkish Parliament has approved the Law No. 2/2633 adapting the measures to suspend time limits for various administrative and legal proceedings including the ones concerning IP rights and it came into force upon its publication on today’s (26 March 2020) Turkish Official Gazette.

On January 06, 2017, the Constitutional Court abolished Article 14 of the Trademark Decree-Law no. 556 (the Decree-Law) that regulated the use requirement of a registered trademark. The said Article set forth the legal basis for non-use revocation of a trademark which has not been put to use in Turkey without a justifiable reason within a period of

As we informed to you before, on 09 July 2018, the Decree Law (number 703) was published in the National Official Gazette in Turkey and abolished the Law No. 5000, “The Law on Establishment and Functions of the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office”. As the title of this law No 5000 indicates, it provides for the establishment, and operation of the Turkish PTO. As such, legally, the Turkish PTO ceased to exist on July 9th. However, on July 10th the very first Presidential Decree called the “Decree On The Organization of the Presidential Administration" was published. There was no specific article in it regulating the Turkish PTO per se. Nonetheless, Article 1 of the subject Decree stated that all of the laws that were abolished by Decree Law no 703 and concern the establishment and organization of public institutes, shall remain in force until a new Presidential Decree is published specifically replacing them.