Confidentiality before patent filing

Türkiye: practical decision and evidence

Before patent filing, control public presentations, offers, websites and disclosures to partners. Keep a dated disclosure chronology and signed confidentiality terms. A later confidentiality agreement cannot erase an earlier public disclosure; investigate the applicable country rules before relying on an exception.

Worked file: an inventor posts a demonstration and later signs an NDA with an investor. List the public post, audience and date separately from confidential meetings. Preserve the original content and seek country-specific eligibility review; deleting the post later does not restore secrecy retroactively.

Patentability conditions

Assess novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability separately using dated prior art and a feature comparison. Distinguish technical solutions from excluded subject matter. A working prototype or commercial success alone does not establish patentability.

Preliminary patent search

Search patent literature and relevant non-patent disclosures using technical synonyms and IPC/CPC classifications. Record dates and feature comparisons. Patentability searching and freedom-to-operate analysis are different tasks and should not be presented as the same report.

Patent application

A patent application needs an enabling description, claims, abstract and any necessary drawings, together with applicant/inventor and priority information. Freeze the technical disclosure before submission. Commercial claims and an incomplete sketch cannot replace a reproducible teaching.

Official filing and support

This guidance concerns Turkish rights unless a section expressly names another jurisdiction. Kayra can coordinate research, document preparation and follow-up. Registration, opposition and grant decisions belong to the competent office. Verify any required representative’s registration and authority before appointing them; court proceedings require appropriately qualified legal representation. The enquiry form requests consultancy, and does not itself file an official application.

Primary official sources

• TÜRKPATENT — Patent and utility-model procedures
• WIPO Lex — Türkiye — Industrial Property Law No.6769
• TÜRKPATENT / ePATS — Official electronic application system