TURKPATENT announced fee changes effective January 01, 2021

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) announced new official fees for patents, utility models, trademarks and designs effective January 01, 2021. The fees schedule was published in the Official Gazette on December 30, 2020. 

The official fees for patent, utility models, trademarks and designs have been increased an average 13% for each fee. 

Exceptionally, the official fees related to the provisional protection of European patents, validation of European patents and PCT national phase entries in Turkey have been substantially increased at an average rate of 40%, specifically 1.930 TRY from 1.380 TRY for the provisional protection of the European patents, 3.095 TRY from 2.210 TRY for the validations of the European patents, and 2.015 TRY from 1.440 TRY for the PCT national phase entries respectively.

The other frequently paid fees have become as follows: 

• Filing patent application: 55 TRY
• Filing utility model application: 55 TRY
• Filing trademark application: 280 TRY per class
• Filing design application: 200 TRY for one design and 80 TRY for each additional design 

The official fees in the Turkish jurisdiction are revised and announced in the beginning of every year and come into force as from January 01 of each year.

The schedule of fees announced for 2021 can be found on this link. TURKPATENT accepts all the applications and requests, and the payments thereof via its state-of-the art EPATS system.