IP/N/1/TUR/11  
IP/N/1/TUR/I/2  
 
28 September 2023  
(23-6492)  Page: 1/2 
Council for Trade -Related Aspects of  
Intellectual Property Rights  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS  UNDER  
ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT  
TÜRKIYE : INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY CODE - LAW NO. 6769  
Notifying Member  TÜRKIYE  
 
Details of the notified legal text  
 
Title Industrial Property Code - Law No. 6769 
Subject matter  Industrial property (general)  
Nature of 
notification  [X] Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation  
[  ] Other law or regulation  
Link to legal text* https://ip -documents.info/2023/IP/TUR/23_11346_00_x.pdf  
Notification status  [  ] First notification  
[  ] Amendment or revision to notified legal text  
[X] Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification(s) 
referred to  IP/N/1/TUR/D/1 ; IP/N/1/TUR/G/1 ; IP/N/1/TUR/P/1 ; IP/N/1/TUR/T/1  
Brief description of the notified legal text  
 
Türkiye has reformed its industrial property rules, namely patents (inventions), industrial designs, 
trademarks, geographical indications, by this new Law No. 6769 of 2016 (Industrial Property Code) 
replacing a series of individual laws, executive decrees, and regulations.  
 
This Law covers all matters related to trademark s, geographical indications, designs, patents, utility 
models, and traditional product names.  
 
It also encompasses applications, registrations, and post -registration processes including legal 
transactions (licen ce, transfer, pledge, inheritance, etc.) and  criminal sanctions concerning the 
violation of these rights and brought a number of substantial changes in to the Turkish intellectual 
property system, including updates in administrative structure and capacity of TÜRKPATENT, which 
changed its previous tit le (Turkish Patent Institute) to the new "Turkish Patent and Trademark 
Office ".  
 
Language(s) of 
notified legal text English  IP/N/1/TUR/11 • IP/N/1/TUR/I/2  
 
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  Entry into force  10 January 2017;  
 
ARTICLE 192 - (1) This Code 's  
 
(a)  Article 26 shall enter into force after seven years from the date of 
 publication  
 
(b)  The provisions regarding the period of making renewal requests 
 regulated with the second paragraph of Article 23 and fourth paragraph 
 of Article 69 and the provisions  related to the obligation of using 
 emblem s regulated with Article 46 shall enter into force after one year 
 from the date of publication  
 
(c)  Other provisions shall enter into force on the date of publication.  
 
Other date   Publication: 10 January 2017  
 
Notification details  
 
Submission date 
of notification  28 March 2023  
Other information  Adoption date: 22 December 2016  
Published in the Official Gazette on 10 January 2017  
Amendments: 9 July 2018 and 28 July 2020  
 
Industrial Property Code  
https://www.turkpatent.gov.tr/en/laws -and-regulations   
 
Industrial Property Code (Turkish)  
https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuat?MevzuatNo=6769&MevzuatTur=1&M
evzuatTertip=5   
 
Regulation on the Implementation of Indu strial Property Law (Turkish) 
https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuat?MevzuatNo=23528&MevzuatTur=7&
MevzuatTertip=5   
 
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT)  
 
13 Hipodrom Street  
06560 Yenimahalle  
Ankara , Türkiye  
 
https://www.turkpatent.gov.tr  
 
Telephone:  (+90 31 2) 303 1 303  
E-Mail:  contact@turkpatent.gov.tr   
 
 
 
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