February 2022

According to the intellectual property data shared by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office, there has been a %3 increase in domestic patent applications. It was noted that the number of domestic patent applications in 2021, thus increased from 8,200 to 8,439.

Clearview AI, the US-based company that provides facial recognition technologies to law forces, has been under criticism for collecting data without people’s consent.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Global Innovation Index report has been shared the world’s most innovative countries in 2021. The world’s most innovative economy in 2021 is Switzerland followed by Sweden, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Korea, according to the GII 2021 rankings.

Our Chairman of the Board of Directors, Kemal Yamankaradeniz, evaluated the number of trademark/patent applications made by the provinces in 2021. Within the framework of this evaluation, he stated that there has been an increase in trademark and patent applications, which is of great importance for the development of our country, and that the public should be conscious in the field of intellectual property rights.

The question "Which products are patented?" is an important topic of discussion in many countries around the world. Software copyright and patent are separate concepts. While both benefit from the protection of the product, copyright only aims to protect a certain idea. For example, copyrights may cover the code owned by a software. Computer-based inventions must have technical elements in order to be patented. On the other hand, as in other patent applications, only inventions that contribute to the elimination of technical problems can be patented. Therefore, the answer to the question "Which products are not patented?" is products that do not contribute to the elimination of technical problems.

Russian rifle manufacturer Kalashnikov has filed a patent application for its UV-4 electric vehicle, a city-commute personel car option. According to the issued patent, the Kalashnikov UV-4 is 3.4 meters long, 1.5 wide and 1.7 meters tall.