There are three ways to obtain patent rights before the Turkish Patent Institute: (i) by filing a conventional (national) patent application; (ii) by nationalising through the international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT); or (iii) by the European Patent Convention (EPC) route.
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All of these are equivalent in view of the enforcement of the rights on the others and have the same protection term of 20 years. The conventional route takes three to four years as one prior art search and three-tier examination system is applied. Most foreign patent applicants prefer to take advantage of EPC route.
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