Utility model: eligibility and route choice

Service purpose and initial file

A Turkish utility model is a particular industrial-property route for eligible technical inventions, not a general name for every useful new product. It must be distinguished from a patent, a design protecting appearance and a trademark identifying goods or services. The route has its own subject-matter limits and procedure; lower expected cost is not an eligibility test. Begin with the actual technical teaching and ask what feature or method would be claimed, who developed it and when it became public.

Preparation and next action

For an initial route decision, provide a problem-and-solution description, an embodiment, drawings and known earlier disclosures. Identify whether the proposed subject includes a process or another legally excluded category, rather than judging only the finished product's commercial usefulness. Compare the relevant search, examination and maintenance requirements of the available routes with the intended claim. Use the current official guidance and applicable legislation, and record any question needing professional review before authorising preparation.

Hypothetical initial-file decision

A hypothetical steriliser developer calls the entire improvement a utility model. Its proposal combines a modified physical housing with a new treatment process. Separate the technical subjects and examine the eligibility of the requested claims; do not assume that a tangible machine makes a process claim suitable for the utility-model route. If appearance is also commercially important, record that as a different protection question. The selection note should explain unresolved issues, rather than relabel the same proposal to obtain a cheaper outcome.

Official authority and consultancy limits

Kayra can help organise the invention information, research and route discussion. TÜRKPATENT decides the official application under the relevant criteria; professional representation and disputed entitlement require the appropriate authority or qualified advice. An initial selection note is not a grant decision, and a utility-model right does not establish that use of the product avoids other parties' rights. Agree the next technical review and authorised filing instructions only after the actual subject and scope are clear.

Primary official sources

These dated official guides explain the cited subject and procedure. Before an actual instruction, check the applicable current rules, office event and fees; a guide reference is not clearance of every current legal amendment or of the individual file.

• TÜRKPATENT — Patent and utility-model guide 2024
• TÜRKPATENT / ePATS — Official electronic application system