Turkish PTO announced new official fees effective January 01, 2022

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) announced new official fees for patents, utility models, trademarks and designs effective January 01, 2022.

The official fees for patents, utility models, trademarks and designs have been increased at a rate of average 36%.

Exceptionally, the official fees related to the provisional protection of European patent applications (publishing the Turkish translation of the claims), validation of European patents and PCT national phase entries in Turkey have been substantially increased at an average rate of 50% as follows:

• Official filing fee for the provisional protection of the European patent applications in Turkey increased to 2.895 TRY from 1.930 TRY,
• Official filing fee for the European patent validations in Turkey increased to 4.640 TRY from 3.095 TRY,
• Official filing fee for the PCT national phase entries in Turkey increased to 3.020 TRY from 2.015 TRY.

TURKPATENT has, for the first time, differentiated the national phase entry fees according to the request of protection type, i.e. national phase entry as a patent application or utility model application. According to the new practice, the PCT national phase entry fee as a utility model application in Turkey amounts to 2.250 TRY, while the PCT national phase entry fee as a patent application in Turkey amounts to 3.020 TRY.

The other frequently paid fees have become as follows:

• Official filing fee for a patent application: 75 TRY.
• Official filing fee for a utility model application: 75 TRY.
• Official filing fee for a trademark application: 380 TRY for one class and 380 TRY for each additional class.
• Official filing fee for a design application: 270 TRY for one design and 120 TRY for each additional design.

The high fee increases have been due to the significant value loss of Turkish lira against major foreign currencies and high inflation during 2021. While the fee increase rates appear high, the official fees have remained lower in terms of major foreign currencies compared to the earlier year.

The official fees in the Turkish jurisdiction are revised and announced at the beginning of every year and come into force as from January 01 of each year. The schedule of fees announced for 2022 can be found on this link.

TURKPATENT accepts all the applications and requests, and the payments thereof via its electronic filing system (EPATS).