TÜRKPATENT: Trademarks, Patents, Designs and Fees in Turkey

TÜRKPATENT is the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (Türk Patent ve Marka Kurumu), the agency in Ankara that registers trademarks, patents, utility models, designs and geographical indications in Türkiye. A trademark application costs 2,820 TL for one class and registration costs 7,010 TL more, in its 2026 fee schedule checked on 25.10.2026.

What TÜRKPATENT is, in plain words

TÜRKPATENT is a state agency attached to the Ministry of Industry and Technology. It sits at Hipodrom Caddesi 13, Yenimahalle, Ankara. The law it applies is the Industrial Property Law, Law 6769 (Sınai Mülkiyet Kanunu), in force since 10.01.2017.

Registers

Patents, utility models, trademarks, geographical indications, designs and integrated-circuit topographies (Law 5147: the layout of a microchip), and the names called traditional specialities guaranteed (names a product has carried for at least 30 years).

Also

Registers licence and transfer deals, acts as expert witness in court and takes part in mediation over compulsory licences.

Call line

0312 303 1 303 checked 25.10.2026

Website

turkpatent.gov.tr, the office’s only website

Industrial property rules in Türkiye are older than the office:

1. 13th–14th centuryThe first rules on industrial property sit in the Ahi guilds (ahilik). The head of a guild, the pir, held a monopoly right for a new technique, valid in one limited area and given on condition that the pir trained new masters.
2. 1871 and 1879A trademark regulation (1871) and the patent law İhtira Beratı Kanunu (1879) are the base of legal protection for marks and patents.
3. 1925Türkiye joins the Paris Convention, the treaty that sets common rules for industrial property.
4. 1965 and 1976Trademark Law 551 takes effect, and Türkiye joins the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
5. 24.06.1994Decree-Law 544 founds the Turkish Patent Institute (Türk Patent Enstitüsü).
6. 1995Türkiye becomes a party to the World Trade Organization agreement and its annex on intellectual property rights (TRIPS), and the customs union with the EU is made. Decree-laws on patents, marks, industrial designs and geographical indications take effect.
7. 19.11.2003 and 22.04.2004Law 5000 sets the Institute’s tasks. Law 5147 protects the layout of microchips.
8. 10.01.2017Law 6769 comes into force and the Institute becomes Türk Patent ve Marka Kurumu.
9. 15.07.2018Presidential Decree 4 takes over the rules on the office’s structure.

Five rights, side by side

Each right protects a different thing and lasts a different time. The strips are drawn to scale; the five tabs say what each right covers and how it is kept.

The office also registers the layout of a microchip, under Law 5147 (in force since 22.04.2004).

A trademark, step by step

In Türkiye a trademark right is acquired by registration. From the application to the register there are five steps, and Law 6769 sets a deadline for most of them. A notice in the electronic mailbox the office sets up for each applicant is deemed delivered on the first login or, at the latest, on the tenth day. A notice in the Trademark Bulletin is deemed delivered seven days after it is published.

1. ApplicationThe form, a picture of the sign, the list of goods and services in Nice classes and proof that the fee is paid. One mark per application. If the application is complete, its date is the day, hour and minute it reaches the office.
2. Formal checkThe office checks the form. If it is incomplete, the applicant gets 2 months to complete it; an application left incomplete is cancelled.
3. Examination and publicationThe office checks whether the sign may be registered and, if so, publishes the application in the Trademark Bulletin, the office’s own publication. After that anyone may send written observations with grounds, until the mark is registered.
4. Opposition (itiraz)For 2 months after publication, relevant persons may oppose in writing, with grounds. The opposition fee, 1,150 TL, must be paid within the same period.
5. RegistrationIf no one opposed, or the opposition failed, the mark is entered in the public register once the registration fee, 7,010 TL, is paid and shown within the period set. Otherwise the application is abolished.

Priority (rüçhan hakkı) is a right that follows a first filing in a country of the Paris Convention or the WTO agreement: the Turkish application for the identical mark and identical goods or services can follow within 6 months. Its effect: applications that third parties file after the priority date for an identical or indistinguishably similar mark, for identical or similar goods or services, are refused.

The applicant states the priority with the application, with its fee of 3,420 TL, and hands in the priority document from the first country’s office within 3 months of the application date; otherwise the request is treated as not made.

Classes and fees, as the 2026 schedule has them

A trademark application names the goods or services it covers by class, and the fee grows with the number of classes. The classes come from the Nice classification, an international list of goods and services run by WIPO: 45 classes, 34 for goods (1–34) and 11 for services (35–45).

Terms in the schedule: harç is a duty collected by the state; KDV (katma değer vergisi) is value-added tax; itiraz is opposition; devir is a transfer and lisans a licence. The trademark schedule shows one amount per line.

Fees from TÜRKPATENT’s trademark schedule, «2026 İŞLEM ÜCRETLERİ», checked 25.10.2026.

Patents and utility models

A patent protects a new invention for 20 years and a utility model protects one for 10; neither can be extended. Both are filed at the same office. The difference is the checking: a patent goes through an examination the applicant requests; a utility model goes through a search report only.

1. ApplicationA patent application costs 620 TL in the 2026 schedule, made up of a 81.42 TL fee, 16.28 TL KDV (value-added tax) and 522.30 TL harç (a state duty). The schedule shows these three parts and the total on every patent line. A utility model application costs 620 TL.
2. Search reportThe applicant requests a search, with the fee, within 12 months of the application date, or the application is treated as withdrawn. The fee is 2,530 TL for an individual, for up to 10 applications, and for a university, for up to 100 applications; every other application pays 5,180 TL.
3. PublicationWhen 18 months have passed since the application or priority date, the office publishes the application. From then on third parties may send comments on whether the invention is patentable, and the applicant holds temporary protection.
4. ExaminationThe applicant requests the examination, with the fee, within 3 months of the date the office notifies the report; otherwise the application is treated as withdrawn. The examination fee has the same two lines, 2,530 TL and 5,180 TL. The office may ask for changes, up to three times. If the invention complies, the grant is decided, the applicant is told and the patent is published.
5. ObjectionFor 6 months after the grant is published, third parties may object, with a fee, on grounds such as lack of novelty or an insufficient description.
6. CertificateThe patent certificate costs 3,800 TL.

A utility model skips the examination request. After the formal check the applicant must request a search report, with the fee, within 2 months of the notice, or the application is treated as withdrawn. The report is published, the applicant and third parties may comment on it for 3 months, and the office then decides on the grant. After the grant only a court can invalidate the utility model, and the grant is no guarantee from the office of its validity or usefulness.

What a patent file holds

A patent application holds a description of the invention, the claims, any drawings the text refers to, an abstract and proof that the application fee is paid. Drawings like this sheet are part of the file.

Annual fees (yıllık ücret) keep a patent application and a patent in force. The first falls due at the end of the second year, on the month and day of the application date, and one falls due every year after that. A late payment is accepted for 6 more months with a surcharge.

The schedule has a line for each year: from the «3rd year» line to the «20th year» line for a patent, from the «2nd year» line to the «10th year» line for a utility model. The columns show those lines.

Designs: the look of a product

A design is the look of a product or of a part of it. A product can be anything made by industry or by hand, including packaging, a set of objects seen together, graphic symbols and typefaces, but not computer programs. A design is protected if it is new and has an individual character.

Some designs are left out: ones that break public order or morals, ones whose look is dictated by the product’s technical function, ones that must be made in a set shape to fit another product, and the misuse of state emblems and religious, historical or cultural signs. Applications go through the office’s online filing system.

Fees from TÜRKPATENT’s design schedule, «2026 İŞLEM ÜCRETLERİ», checked 25.10.2026.

Filing from abroad, and the international routes

A person whose home is abroad can only be represented by a trademark or patent attorney. That is Law 6769, and work done for such a person without an attorney is void. A registered attorney (marka vekili for trademarks, patent vekili for patents) is a private professional, not office staff. Once an attorney is named, the attorney does all the work and a notice to the attorney is deemed made to the person.

WIPO

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva runs the Madrid system for trademarks, the PCT for patents and the Hague system, the international route for design registrations.

Who may apply: Turkish citizens; people and firms with a home or a business in Türkiye; people who have the right to apply under the Paris Convention or the WTO agreement; and, on reciprocity, citizens of states that protect Turkish citizens’ industrial property.

Geographical indications: a name tied to a place

A geographical indication (GI, coğrafi işaret) is a registered name that ties a product to the place it comes from. Food, farm, mining, handicraft and industrial products can be registered. Konya Etliekmek (etli ekmek: bread with meat), a flatbread with a minced-meat topping, is one: a designation of origin registered under number 214.

Red emblem

Appellation of origin

menşe adı

A name for a product that owes its qualities to the area it comes from, with all of its production steps in that area.

Law 6769 and the GI portal, checked 25.10.2026

Green emblem

Designation of origin

mahreç işareti

A name for a product with a clear quality or a reputation that comes from its area; at least one step, such as production or processing, takes place in the area.

Law 6769 and the GI portal, checked 25.10.2026

Blue emblem

Traditional speciality guaranteed

geleneksel ürün adı

A name that is neither of those but has been used in the market to describe the product for at least 30 years.

Law 6769 and the GI portal, checked 25.10.2026

Every registered GI product must carry the emblem of an appellation of origin or a designation of origin. A regulation published on 29.12.2017 and in force since 10.01.2018 requires it; the use of a traditional speciality guaranteed name without an emblem is outside that regulation. The emblem tells shoppers that the name is registered with the office and makes traceability and inspection easier. Misuse of the emblems draws criminal penalties under Law 6769.

Emblems: TÜRKPATENT, 2022, Wikimedia Commons: appellation of origin, designation of origin and traditional speciality guaranteed.

1. Who appliesProducer groups; public bodies and professional organisations that count as public bodies; associations, foundations and cooperatives that work for the public or protect their members’ economic interests; or a single producer who proves it is the only one.
2. The fileThrough the office’s online filing system: the applicant’s identity, the name, the product group, a description of the product, the boundaries of the area, the production method, proof of the link between the product and the area, its history, how inspection will work and how the name will be used on labels.
3. Examination and publicationThe office examines the file, asks for missing papers, may ask other bodies for an opinion and then publishes the application in the Bulletin.
4. ObjectionFor 3 months after publication, third parties may object in writing with grounds; the objection fee is 1,010 TL.
5. RegistrationIf there is no objection or it fails, the name is registered once the registration fee, 820 TL for the certificate and the register entry, is paid and shown within 2 months of the notice. The application itself costs 550 TL.

Inspection keeps a registered name honest: a control body that the office has approved checks production, sale and distribution against the register, and sends the office a report every year from the date the registration was published. The registrant may charge the inspected parties for the costs.

Konya Etliekmek

Kind

Designation of origin (mahreç işareti)

Register number

214

Registered

09.06.2017

Applied

11.09.2012

Applicant

Konya Lokantacılar Odası (Konya Restaurateurs’ Chamber)

Register entry, checked 20.10.2026.

Konya Tiridi

Kind

Designation of origin (mahreç işareti)

Register number

1233

Registered

29.09.2022

Applied

15.09.2020

Applicant

Konya Büyükşehir Belediyesi (Konya Metropolitan Municipality)

Register entry, checked 20.10.2026.

Tirit is a Turkish dish of meat served on bread. One dish can carry several registered names; these tirit names are all designations of origin:

Register entries, checked 20.10.2026.

Fees for a GI

Application

550 TL

Certificate and register entry

820 TL

Objection examination

1,010 TL

Traditional speciality guaranteed: application

550 TL

Traditional speciality guaranteed: certificate and entry

820 TL

TÜRKPATENT’s 2026 schedule for geographical indications, checked 25.10.2026.

Looking things up, and the sources

Related guides: Dropshipping in Turkey for marketplace sellers, Turkish jeans under your own label for private-label orders and the Turkish cheese guide for the protected cheese names.

Photos, the logo and the emblems are from Wikimedia Commons, each with author, date, licence and file page in its caption or in the geographical indications chapter. The logo and the emblems are the office’s and only name it; TÜRKPATENT did not take part in this guide.

This guide is general information, not advice. Fees, periods and rules change: read the office’s pages and Law 6769 for the day you file.