PATENT IN TURKEY

A patent shall be granted to the inventions in all fields of technologyproviding that the invention is new, involves an inventive step and is susceptible to industry.

According to Turkish Patent Law below mentioned shall not be considered as inventions. In case the application for a patent or the patent itself are involved in the subjects or activities mentioned below, this subject only or the activity itself shall stay out of patentability.

• Discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;
• Mental acts, business activities or game related plans, rules and methods;
• Computer programs;
• Products with aesthetical creations , belles-lettres, artworks and treatise;
• Presentation of the information.

Also below mentioned inventions shall not be granted a patent:

• İnventions violating public order or public moral;
• Biological processes relating to plant varieties or animal races; or intending to generate plant varieties or animal races with the exception of microbiological processes or products obtained in the result of such processes;
• All treatment modalities including the diagnosis methods which are intended to be applied to human or animal bodies and surgical methods;
• Discovering only one of the parts of human body including human body and a gene sequence or a partial gene sequence in the various phases of their generation and evolution;
• The human cloning processes, the changing processes of genetic identity of human sextinked inheritance, using human embryos for industrial or commercial purposes, changing processes of genetic identity in a way that may agonize the animals without providing any significant medical avails for human or animals and animals that are obtained in the result of such operations.