Digital Transformation in TURKPATENT

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) has announced that "Digital Archive Project", which was launched in 2015 to transfer approximately 65 million page documents in TURKPATENT's archives to electronic media was completed as from the end of 2017.

In the official announcement, it was mentioned that by scanning the physical archives and transferring them to the electronic medium, the physical movement of the files was minimised, as well as a faster and safer environment for the operations has been provided.

TURKPATENT also stated that e-invoices and e-book applications, where software are completed in line with the goal of realising all internal and external services and transactions in an electronic environment, have been also put into use.

According to the announcement, most of the services of TURKPATENT have been integrated into the e-government gate.

"In order to maintain service quality in view of the increasing workload, the works for the modernisation to establish a modular, expandable and scalable structure to meet the needs in the near future have been made. This will provide high performance, uninterrupted communication with the existing structure that has completed its technological lifetime. In the first months of 2018, the project is planned to be put into life." said TURKPATENT.

Source: TURKPATENT

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Turkish inventions will be exhibited in Geneva

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office is participating in the 46th International Exhibition of  Inventions of Geneva in Switzerland, from April 11th to April 15th, 2018, with three domestic inventors and their inventions. Various 1000 inventions of more than 700 participants from 45 countries will be introduced during the exhibition organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

The exhibition, attracting the attention of industrialists, investors, businessmen in search of innovation, allows the inventors to introduce their inventions and have financial support for commercializing their inventions. In the exhibition, outstanding inventions are awarded in various categories.

In the last year's exhibition, Turkish inventors:

• İlter DENİZOĞLU won "Gold" prize and Special Award for Medical Science of Gulian University of Islamic Republic of Iran  and the special award of China's Delegation,
• Gül Bahar BAŞIM, Sabri Orçun ORHAN, Zeynep ÖZDEMİR, Özkan BEBEK won "Gold" prize and the special award of Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation of Romania,
• Ezgi YELEKOĞLU & Altuğ TOPRAK won the "Silver" prize and the special award of China's Delegation.

The following inventions will be exhibited in the boot of the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office during the exhibition of this year.

"Settable Pot" by Arife Sare AYDIN, Inventor

This invention relates to a pot containing a stirrer which is connected to the lid to allow the meal to be stirred at a constant speed while being cooked, and controlled by means of a setting mechanism. Said pot comprises a stirrer which performs the mixing process, a setting mechanism providing movement to the said stirrer, and a lid on which the said components are carried.

"Desktop thermoelectric ice machine" by Raşit AHISKA, Inventor

This invention is an easily portable desktop thermoelectric ice machine which produces ice in a very short time by converting electrical energy from the electric network or battery directly into the cold by means of a thermoelectric module consisting of N and P-type semiconductors without using intermediates. In the designed device, a small amount of clean water is automatically or manually placed in the high-heat-conducting ice container (cooler compartment) to produce ice within 1-3 minutes in a needed amount for cooling a person's drink, and the device is operated with a battery or mains voltage. 30-50 gr of ice, which is the average amount of ice needed to cool a drink in a beverage at one time, is herein produced in 1-3 minutes and can be served automatically or manually. The ice container of the device is cooled by a specially designed single thermoelectric module. Special battery or special SMPS power supply is used to operate the module. A special temperature control circuit is used to keep the device's electricity consumption to a minimum. A heat transfer system having a specially designed heat pipe is used to keep the heating surface of the module at ambient temperature.

"Road safety system for uneven roads" by Adnan Kal and Uğur Kal, Inventors

This invention relates to a road safety system for uneven roads, by which the vehicles exceeding the speed limit are trembled and drawn to the level of the speed limit.

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Domestic cancer drugs to be produced and patented

The following is the translation of the news published on Turkish daily "Sabah" on March 05, 2018. Please click here to find the original publication.

Turkey has given a start for the domestic production of cancer drugs. The world-wide famous pharmaceutical companies have been invited for the cancer drugs that will be produced locally from molecules to patent.

The government, after defence industry and renewable energy, will give Turkey's biggest incentive for domestic production of the drugs to the pharmaceutical industry.

Health  Economic Coordination Committee chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek has decided to invite the world's pharmaceutical giants for domestic production and partnership.

Turkey imports cancer drugs, including the side treatments, of 2.5 billion Turkish liras each year. Domestically producing the cancer drugs, for which there is currently 100% dependency on the foreigners, Turkey would make a leap on the world drugs market and the dependency on such strategic product would end. 

The Government will call the world's pharmaceutical giants to Turkey for their producing domestic cancer drugs. The world's big pharmaceutical companies like Novartis and Roche will be invited to found factories in Turkey for producing cancer drugs in Turkey. The Government will give the purchase guarantee to the firm which gives the best offer. The R&D of the pharmaceutical industry will be developed. Turkish engineers will take place in the R&D works. "Know-how" environment will be created to allow domestic firms to produce cancer drugs. If pharmaceutical is patented in Turkey, it will be deemed to be as Turkey's export, without regarding where it was sold around the world. Thus, Turkey would become among the countries exporting high-tech products in the pharmaceutical industry.

The Health Economy Coordination Board has already put the blood plasmas, which were among imported products, into the domestic production, for a 7-year purchase guarantee. Thanks to the domestic plasmas production made with the domestic partner, it is expected that it would be shortly among the export items, coming out of import items. After the vaccines, cancer drugs, the patent of which will belong to Turkey, may be domestically produced. Turkey is allocating a budget of 25 billion dollars for the drug each year and more than half of it is imported from abroad. Turkey aims to become the most powerful production centre in the Middle East with its domestic pharmaceutical industry.

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