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Melis and Berrin have evaluated Turkey’s New Food Labeling Standards for Consumer Protection

The Guideline on Procurement of Medicinal Products from Abroad was published by the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency on 23.02.2024.

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office will be examining the revocation applications as of 10 January 2024.

The Article titled “Can a Shape Sign Be Described as a ‘Common Name’?” drafted by our partner Ayşen Kunt has been published in INTA Bulletin's Law & Practice.

“Exercise of the right to be forgotten in Turkey in terms of search engine results” co-authoured by our partners Melis Sılacı Korkmaz, LL.M. and Berrin Dinçer Özbey, LL.M. in the latest edition of International Bar Association Litigation Committee’s Newsletter.

Kodiak & INTA İşbirliği ile Gerçekleşecek Webinar: Tanınmış Markaların İkilemi: Jenerikleşme; Markanızı Kaybetmemenin Yolları

Berrin Dinçer Özbey and Dr. Çiğdem Yatağan Özkan's peer-reviewed article “Green Is the New Black: The Rise of Green Marks and Possible Solutions to Greenwashing” has been published on Annales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul.

The Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency (the "Agency") published the Guideline on the Scheduling Process of Applications for Marketing Authorization for Medicinal Products for Human Use (the “Guideline”) on 12 October 2023, and it will come into effect on 1 January 2024.

The updated Guideline on Procurement of Pharmaceuticals from Abroad has been published by the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency on 29 September 2023.

The Regulation Amending the Regulation on the Use of Health Claims in Food and Food Supplements was published in the Official Gazette dated 23 August 2023 and numbered 32288.

The Regulation on Promotional and Informative Activities in Health Services (“Regulation”) was published in the Official Gazette dated 29.07.2023 and numbered 32263.

The Regulation on Promotional and Informative Activities in Health Services (“Regulation”) was published in the Official Gazette dated 29.07.2023 and numbered 32263.

The Decree Amending the Decree on the Pricing of Medical Products for Human Use was published in the Official Gazette dated 23 July 2023 and numbered 32257.

New Regulation on the Licensing of Homeopathic Medical Products was published in the Official Gazette dated 8 July 2023 and numbered 32242.

With the Presidential Decree No. 7346 Amending the Decree on Determination of Value Added Tax (VAT) Rates Applicable to Goods and Services, which was published in the Official Gazette numbered 32241 on 07 July 2023, VAT rates were amended as of July 10, 2023.

The Guideline on Packaging Information and Legibility of Foods for Special Medical Purposes and the Guideline on Stability Studies of Food for Special Medical Purposes was published by the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency on June 23, 2023.

Our partner Ayşen Kunt has been listed as trademark star in MAnaging IP's 2023 edition

Our client Şebnem Elif Kocaoğlu Ulbrich has been listed as a runner-up by the FICPI - International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys

Kodiak Law & IP has been firstly listed amongst Notable Firms by the Managing IP’s 2023 edition.

Ayşen Kunt reviews GC's long waited decision on SPINNING case