Trademark Investigation Process
All the markers which make services and goods distinctive and differentiated from the other organization(s) are called trademarks. Distinctiveness is the key element of trademark registration processes. Letters, numbers, signs and even names and last names could be protected with trademark registration. In order to use a marker or a brand as an element of the service, and in order the owner to have all of the rights of these markers or brands, one must complete the application for trademark registration protection to Turkish Patent Institute and earn this right. Trademark protection will be valid for 10 years after the application. Completion of the registration application process may take approximately 11-12 months. During the trademark protection duration, that is 10 months, no other organization(s) could use this brand without permission, and owner of the brand could give permission to others for the use of the brand or could transfer the brand to others.
The Importance of Trademark Registration and Trademark Investigation Process
After the trademark registration has been made, experts from Turkish Patent Institute first of all investigates the application by asking the questions whether the application could constitute a brand and whether the applications is similar to another former application. We can clearly declare that most of the time when a trademark application cannot lead to registration, the problem results from the improperly made similarity comparisons with former applications. If the application is rejected partially or completely, one has the right to submit grounds of appeal. The important point here is that one should certainly have justified reasons for the appeal. Of course, no company or person wills to be confronted with such a situation; however this may sometimes cause financial or moral damages to organizations. With a trademark investigation process performed by a professional company brand attorney and an exclusive program database, it is possible to avoid such situations. You can perform trademark investigation through the website of Turkish Patent Institute, or through official attorney offices. Sistem Patent also started to provide you, valued customers, with the service of trademark investigation, using its own software and database which the company built up over years. Trademark database performs investigation according to trademark criteria with a specific code structure.