Applying for a design

Türkiye: practical decision and evidence

Before a Turkish design filing, identify applicant and designer, prepare coherent reproductions, select the product classification and examine disclosure/priority dates. Submit through ePATS and keep the official receipt. A quote request to a consultancy is not the official application.

Worked file: a designer supplies one low-resolution product photo and no disclosure history. Obtain consistent views, identity and entitlement records, product indication and prior disclosures before completing ePATS. Save the submission and fee receipt; record preparation gaps before calling the filing complete.

Design representations

Prepare consistent views that disclose the same design and its relevant visible features. Explain omitted views and any excluded parts where required. Mixed colours, inconsistent shapes or unclear contours can leave the intended protection uncertain.

Design protection conditions

Design protection depends on novelty and individual character, considering the informed user’s overall impression and the designer’s freedom. Compare dated earlier appearances. Mere novelty in a product name does not establish a protectable appearance.

Design priority

Design priority can connect a later filing to an earlier qualifying application within the relevant six-month period. Preserve the first application and verify identity of the design and applicant entitlement. A different variant cannot simply inherit every earlier priority claim.

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 — Design applications and procedures
• WIPO Lex — Türkiye — Industrial Property Law No.6769
• TÜRKPATENT / ePATS — Official electronic application system
• WIPO / Hague — Guidance on design reproductions