Trademark Watch

What Is Trademark Watch?

Trademark watch is a systematic search and monitoring process that protects a registered trademark against imitation by third parties and against the registration of similar marks.

  • Monthly Watch Report
  • Bulletin Publication Report
  • Opposition Report
  • Counter-Statement Report

Trademark Watch

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What Is Trademark Watch?

Trademark watch is the regular screening of new applications published in the Official Trademark Bulletin against your own mark. The purpose is to catch an encroaching application before the two-month opposition window closes. TÜRKPATENT is not obliged to refuse applications similar to earlier marks of its own motion, and it does not notify owners; monitoring is entirely the right holder’s responsibility.

What Happens Without Watching

If a similar application goes unnoticed and the publication period expires, it proceeds to registration. From that point the administrative route closes and only an invalidity action before the courts remains. That route:

  • Takes considerably longer
  • Costs more, with litigation and expert fees
  • Leaves the similar mark in use in the market meanwhile

What Is Monitored

  • New applications with identical or similar wording
  • Applications spelled differently but phonetically similar
  • Figurative and logo similarities
  • Your registered Nice classes and neighbouring classes
  • Renewal and deadline calendars

Frequently Asked Questions

The Office examines identical or indistinguishably similar applications under absolute grounds. Similarities giving rise to a likelihood of confusion are relative grounds and, as a rule, are examined only on the earlier right holder’s opposition.

No. Watching is an early-warning system: it finds the similar application and reports it. To preserve your rights you must file an opposition in time.

The Official Trademark Bulletin appears at regular intervals and each issue contains a large number of applications. Manual tracking is impractical, which is why systematic watching is used.

Ideally the whole portfolio. Where budget is limited, priority goes to marks carrying the largest share of turnover, the greatest recognition and the highest counterfeiting risk.

Yes, foreign bulletins can be included. Scope is set as part of international consultancy.
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