Kafadar & Yuvalı provides comprehensive services to national and international clients in all areas of intellectual property rights, including trademarks, patents, industrial designs, geographical indications, domain names, and copyright protection before Patent Institutes.
Our services cover every stage of establishing and safeguarding intellectual property rights, from registration to judicial proceedings and litigation.We offer consultancy, monitoring, objections, contract drafting, and representation in disputes concerning trademark and design law. We represent our clients before Civil, Criminal, and Administrative Courts of First Instance, as well as higher courts such as the Supreme Court of Appeals and the Council of State, and administrative institutions like the Turkish Patent Institute, customs authorities, and domain name authorities. Our practices include filing and following invalidation, cancellation, and annulment actions, applications for the protection of well-known marks, cases involving confusion and unfair competition, and suspension and seizure requests before customs, along with search and seizure measures in both criminal and civil proceedings.
Additionally, we provide legal services related to the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works. In the field of Copyright Law, we offer legal consultancy to our clients in the preparation and negotiation of various contracts, the operation of copyrighted works, licensing, assignment, use and exploitation agreements, maintenance and development, and outsourcing agreements.