MAIN AMENDMENTS MADE IN TRADEMARK LAW WITH THE LAW NO 6769 ON PROPERTY LAW

Abstract

In the Turkish legal system, rights priorities regarding trademarks, patents, geographical indications and industrial designs were regulated by decree law. Finally, by the adoption of the Industrial Property Law No. 6769 on 22.12.2016 and the entry into force of the Act on 10.01.2017, all Decree Laws related to intellectual property rights were abolished. With the enactment of the Industrial Property Law No. 6769, some of the trademark regulations regulated by Law No. 556 have been abolished and some of the amendments and additions have been made.The purpose of this study is to determine the differences between the regulations on trademark law regulated under the Decree Law No. 556 and the regulations on trademark law regulated under the Industrial Property Law No. 6769.Let us immediately mention that with the enactment of the Industrial Property Law No. 6769, the Decree Law No. 556, together with the provisional Article 1 of the Law No. 6769, “National and international trademark and design applications and geographical sign applications which have been made to the Institute before the date of publication of this Law