November 11, 2019
The new version of the Trademark Examination Guideline (“Guideline”) has been published by Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (“TURKPATENT”) on September 30, 2019 and replaced the previous version published in 2015. You may access the full text in Turkish here. The Guideline sets forth many criteria for the application of colour combination trademarks as well…
November 4, 2019
Our Anti-Counterfeiting team is proud to announce a successful raid organized on behalf of several well known perfume brand owners with the Istanbul Police Department against counterfeiters at 4 (four) different locations in Istanbul. As a result of the raid the team was successful to seize 263,676 pieces of product, packaging, bottles ready to be…
October 30, 2019
Jennifer Lopez has become the latest party to an increasing number of copyright infringement lawsuits instituted by paparazzi agencies and respective photographers based on the unauthorized use of their copyright protected material by celebrities on their social media accounts. Previously, similar types of lawsuits were filed against Khloe Kardashian, Ariana Grande, 50 Cent and Gigi…
October 28, 2019
The new version of the Trademark Examination Guideline (“Guideline”) has been published by Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (“TURKPATENT”) on September 30, 2019 and replaced the previous version published in 2015. You may access the full text in Turkish via the following link: The new version of the Guideline is the first one published since the enactment…
October 26, 2019
Deriş will run for KAÇUV in the annual Istanbul Marathon A team of 25 volunteers from Deriş will run to collect donation for"The Hope Foundation for Children with Cancer" (KACUV) in the annual Istanbul Marathon of November 03, 2019. The donations aims to contribute education of the KACUV Children. KAÇUV : The Hope Foundation for…
October 25, 2019
Deris attended 5 simultaneous police raids in Kusadasi, a well-known tourist spot in Turkey. Deris, anti-counterfeiting team, has recently attended 5 simultaneous police raids in Kusadasi on behalf of his clients who are active in the field of luxury goods particularly in jewelries and watches. As a country known with the counterfeiting activities, Turkey has…
October 3, 2019
E. Kerim Yardımcı, partner at Deris Attorney-at-Law Partnership attended the 99th PTMG Conference held on October 02 - 05, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. About PTMG Founded in 1970, PTMG has been a success story ever since: over more than 4 decades a family-like group of specialized trade mark professionals, with a high representation from the…
May 16, 2019
Deris is delighted to announce the fourth unreal campaign training in March 2019 on behalf of International Trademark Association (INTA) at Uskudar American Academy which is one of the top ranked foreign co-educational high schools in Turkey. The event was organized with the contribution of the Economy Club. The training started by the INTA Anti-Counterfeiting…
May 2, 2019
This year, our firm will be represented at the INTA Conference to be held in Boston between May 18-22 by our colleagues Mr. E. Kerim Yardımcı, Mr. Okan Çan and Mrs. Feride Utku and Mr. Sarper Sever.
April 19, 2019
Okan Çan Partner at Deris will speak at the seminar “World Intellectual Property Day and Sport” organized by Bogazici University on April 30, 2019 on the occasion of the WORLD IP DAY.
April 15, 2019
We are very proud to announce that Deris has been ranked as a Top-Tier Firm in tier 1 in the ranking of the Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa pursuant to successes of firms operating in the field of intellectual property. Deris has been defined as ‘knowledgeable, business-oriented and creative’ IP specialist. Not only…
March 4, 2019
The colloquium on "IP Protection of Artificial Intelligence” to be organized by FICPI, AIPLA and AIPPI will take place on March 27-29, 2019 in Turin/ITALY. M.N. Aydın Deriş and Elif Kayral will be attending to the colloquium.
March 1, 2019
Deris is pleased to announce the third Unreal Campaign training in February 2019 on behalf of International Trademark Association (INTA) in Turkey at TED Istanbul College. The training started by the INTA Anti-Counterfeiting Committee member Okan Can with an introductory information concerning the INTA, the Unreal Campaign and continued with the explanations of two Deris…
February 18, 2019
We are at "INTA 2019 Europe Conference: Embracing the Change" in Paris. Okan Can from Deris is attending the conference. Over the two days the leading legal and business experts discussed practical tips to adapt to the challenges and opportunities with AI, Blokchain and other future technologies. Please click here for more information concerning the…
February 1, 2019
We are proud to announce that after successfully completing Trust Index© employee survey and Culture Audit© which evaluates the human resources implementations and analyses workplace culture within the framework of Great Place to Work Recognition program, Deris has received the title of “Great Place to Work® Certified” and became the first certified law firm in…
January 25, 2019
On January 31- February 01, 2019 a joint seminar will be held by French and Italian Groups of AIPPI at Lyon and Feride Utku and Burcum Evgin, Attorney at Laws, will attend this Seminar on behalf of Deris Attorney-At-Law Partnership.
January 17, 2019
E. Kerim Yardimci (Managing Partner at Deris) attended the Innovation & IP Forum which was held on January 30, 2019 in Paris. This unique one-day event, gathering 500+ international key players from the world of innovation, including general counsel, IP directors, chief innovation officers, R&D directors and directors of strategy. The Innovation & IP Forum…
January 17, 2019
Mr. E. Kerim Yardimci (Managing Partner, Attorney at Law) and Ms. Oya Yalvac (Senior Associate, European Patent Attorney) will attend the third annual event ‘Pharma and Biotech IP’ on January 28, 2019 in London held by IAM. Mr. E. Kerim Yardimci will moderate the session ''Managing Political and Legislative Change'' with the speakers Francesco Macchetta…
December 19, 2018
Mrs Gizem Küçükarslan Bayer, Senior Attorney at Deris Attorney-At-Law Partnership delivered a presentation concerning "the Protection of Patent Rights at the Customs" during the Regional Customs Trainings for the Protection of the Patent which was held on 18-19 December 2018 by the Aegean Customs and Trade Regional Directorate in Izmir.
December 18, 2018
Başak Yiğiter, Patent Attorney at Deris and Elif T. Dinçer Attorney-at-Law at Deris , delivered presentations concerning “Patent Protection" and "Employee Inventions" at Özyeğin University on December 26, 2018 within the scope of the training organized by Özyeğin University TTO. TTO members and directors, inventors, technology compnay owners and university students have attended the training.
December 5, 2018
Deris is pleased to announce the second unreal campaign training in November 2018 on behalf of International Trademark Association (INTA) in Turkey at German High School in Istanbul. The training started by the INTA Anti-Counterfeiting Committee member Okan Can (Partner at Deris) with an introductory information concerning the INTA, the Unreal Campaign and continued with…
October 30, 2018
INTA – Leadership Meeting will be held at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, on November 06 -09, 2018 and Okan Çan, partner of Deriş Avukatlık Ortaklığı and a member of Anti-Counterfeiting Committee, will attend the meeting.
September 24, 2018
Kerim Yardımcı, partner at Deris Attorney-at-Law Partnership will participate in the 97th PTMG Conference to be held on October 03 - 06, 2018 in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
September 19, 2018
Ms. Asli Tireli, Senior Associate at Deris will be attending European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA) 37th Annual Conference in Athens from June 13, 2018 to June 16, 2018 which is celebrated with the theme “Gods in Transıt: IP at the Crossroads of Great Civilizations”.
September 17, 2018
Muazzez Korutürk of Deriş Attorneys-at-Law Partnership will attend the annual meeting of the GRUR (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property) to be held in Berlin, Germany between 26 – 29 September 2018.
September 14, 2018
Deris is proud to be have been named as one of the leading firms of 2018 in the ranking of enforcement & litigation and as a Highly Recommended Firm of 2018 in the ranking of the prosecution & strategy by the “World Trademark Review”, one of the world’s leading trademark law publications. The firm’s partners…
September 12, 2018
We are pleased to announce that WIPR Leaders, a one-stop guide to the leading IP practitioners in the world, has named Mr. M.N. Aydın Deriş and Mr. Okan Çan as leaders in its handbook, stemming from a four month nomination period in which views from 12,000 IP professionals were sought.
August 6, 2018
We are very proud to announce that Deris has been ranked in the lists of ‘litigation and transactions’ and ‘prosecution’ as highly recommended firm in Turkey by IAM Patent 1000. Deris is the only firm which has been ranked in both the list of ‘highly recommended firms in prosecution’ and the list of ‘recommended firms…
June 12, 2018
Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) has released its IP STARS results (2018). We are proud to announce that three firm partners M.N. Aydın Deriş, E. Kerim Yardimci and Okan Can have been named as IP Stars. The two senior associates Muazzez Korutürk and Gizem Küçükarslan Bayer have been recognized as rising stars in IP Stars Handbook…
June 4, 2018
We are very proud to announce that Deris has been named as a leading law firm in the area of Intellectual Property in four rankings namely in patent litigation, trademark litigation, patent & trademark prosecution, by Leaders League. Deris has been the only firm which is ranked as a leading firm in all ranking of…
April 26, 2018
This year, our firm will be represented at the INTA Conference to be held in Seattle between May 19-23, 2018 by our colleagues Mr. Kerim Yardımcı, Mrs. Serra Coral, Mr. Okan Çan and Mrs. Feride Utku, Mrs. Tuğçe Güven.
November 3, 2017
The INTA Leadership Meeting will be held on November 7-10, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Okan Çan of Deriş Attorney-at-Law Partnership will attend the meetings.
October 16, 2017
The 95th Conference of the PTMG was held on 4th to 7th October, 2017 in Toronto Canada. Mr. E. Kerim Yardimci, partner of Deris Attorney-at-Law Partnership, made a presentation entitled Hot Topics in Turkey
May 12, 2017
This year, our firm will be represented at the INTA Conference to be held in Barcelona between May 20-24, 2017 by our colleagues Mr. Kerim Yardımcı, Mrs. Serra Coral, Mrs. Berrin Kalenderli, Mr. Okan Çan and Mrs. Elif Türkan Dinçer.
March 20, 2017
Partners E. Kerim Yardimci and Okan Can with Gizem Kucukarslan and Tugce Guven from Deris Attorney at Law Partnership attends to the seminar ''The New Law on Industrial Property from the perspective of enforcement of IP Rights'' between March 22-23 2017 organized by the Ministry of Customs and Trade at Istanbul Conrad Bosphorus Hotel. Our…
March 16, 2017
MIP International Patent Forum, organized by the Managing Intellectual Property on March 8 & 9, 2017, has taken place at the Waldorf Hilton Hotel. Mr. Okan Çan of Deriş Attorney At Law Partnership has attended the Forum.
