Employee inventions

Türkiye: practical decision and evidence

For employee inventions, record the technical disclosure, work duties, employer resources and notification chronology. Analyse the applicable service-invention rules and contractual position. Inventorship, ownership and remuneration are separate questions; employment alone should not replace a documented assessment.

Worked file: an employee develops a mechanism partly at home and partly using employer equipment. Preserve work instructions, technical records, notifications and agreements. Examine service-invention entitlement and remuneration separately; neither the workplace location nor a name on the drawing resolves every ownership issue.

Inventor and applicant

The inventor is the person who created the invention; the applicant is the person entitled to seek the right. Document employment, assignment or succession as relevant. Naming the inventor does not by itself resolve title to the application.

University inventions

For university inventions, preserve invention disclosure, institutional duties, funding conditions and publication plans. Analyse the applicable higher-education invention rules. Academic authorship and ownership of patent rights are separate matters and require documented entitlement.

Patent assignment and licensing

Separate patent assignment from a licence to exploit specified rights. Identify patent/application numbers, territories, exclusive/non-exclusive terms and register requirements. A licence agreement does not automatically make the licensee the patent owner.

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