Turkish IP services for Chinese individuals and companies

We coordinate the filing; the formal filing is performed by a registered Turkish trademark or patent attorney (marka vekili / patent vekili) in our network. Applicants domiciled outside Turkey must be represented before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (Turkpatent) by such a registered attorney; Turkish residents may file themselves. Trademark and patent attorneys are regulated professions with their own registers; they are not attorneys-at-law (lawyers). Turchina is the project manager, the bilingual interface, and the strategic adviser; the trademark or patent attorney does the formal work under your power of attorney.

From filing to registration certificate, it usually takes about 6 to 10 months if there is no objection or opposition. The phases: formal and absolute-grounds examination (about 2 to 5 months), publication in the Official Trademark Bulletin (Resmî Marka Bülteni) with a 2-month opposition window, then payment of the registration fee and issue of the certificate (about 1 to 2 months). We give clients a realistic project plan with checkpoints at each phase.

Both work; the cheaper route depends on how many countries you need and the official fees in each, so we model both for your specific portfolio. A Chinese company can file Madrid via the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), extending into Turkey as a designated state.

Turkpatent's 2026 official fees: application TRY 2,820 for the first class, TRY 2,820 for the second and TRY 3,150 for each further class, plus a one-off registration and certificate fee of TRY 7,010. A single-class mark therefore costs about TRY 9,830 (roughly USD 200) in official fees. Fees are revalued every January. Trademark-attorney service fees are separate and quoted in writing per filing, so you see official and attorney fees side by side before anything is filed.

Yes, but it almost never makes commercial sense. Filing across all 45 classes for one mark would cost about TRY 148,000 (roughly USD 3,000) in 2026 official fees alone, and any class that goes unused for five years after registration is exposed to revocation; since 10 January 2024 such revocation requests are filed with Turkpatent rather than the courts. We help you identify the 2 to 6 classes that actually protect your business and add a small defensive layer in adjacent classes where useful.

Three options: (1) a formal challenge: opposition within the 2-month publication window (bad faith is a ground), non-use revocation at Turkpatent once the mark has gone unused for five years, or a bad-faith invalidation action before the IP courts, brought by an independent lawyer; (2) coexistence negotiation; (3) buy-back. The right path depends on the squatter profile and the trademark value. Your trademark attorney (and, for court action, an independent lawyer) assesses the options; we coordinate and brief you in Mandarin before any approach.