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).

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TURKPATENT has made substantive discounts on search and examination reports

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) has significantly discounted the official fees for search and examination reports in order to reduce patent and utility model registration costs.

The discounted fees will be limited to a certain number of requests for search and examination as follows:

- 10 requests for real persons,

- 25 requests for legal entities,

- 100 requests for universities.

The discounted fee will be 100 Turkish Lira (20 USD).

Thus, for example, if the applicant is a real person, he/she will be able to benefit from discounted fees up to 20 requests, including 10 for the search reports for patent or utility model applications and 10 for the substantive examination reports for patent or utility model applications.

When the number of requests determined according to the type of applicant is exceeded, the normal fees (if the request is filed through the e-government system) will be applied (590 TL (112 USD) for the search report and 355 TL (67 USD) for the examination report).

In the new schedule of official fees set by TURKPATENT for 2019, it has been noted that the official fees for the European patent validations and PCT national phase entries in Turkey have been substantively increased.

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TURKPATENT has reduced some of official fees up to 40%

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) reduced some official fees up to 40%. New fees were published on September 05, 2018 in the Turkish Official fees.

The discount covers patent filing fee, patent registration fee, assignment fee, 1 to 10 years patent annuities, trademark filing fee, trademark registration, trademark renewal fee, design filing fee, design renewal fee.

The discount decision has come forward due to extreme depreciation of Turkish lira. The Turkish lira fell up to 20% versus the dollar last month after President Donald Trump said he would double the rates of tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum.

Reducing the official fees on patents, trademarks and designs, TURKPATENT aims to support the enterprises in their search for protecting their new inventions and brands as well as maintaining their registered ones.

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