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The new Netflix series “The Billion Dollar Code” focuses on a real-life patent dispute. The 4-part mini series deals with the alleged patent infringement by Google Earth of code belonging to software called TerraVision. It is known that there is a 3D mapping software developed in Berlin in 1993 by the German company ART + COM as “a networked virtual representation of the World based on satellite imagery, aerial shots, altitude data and architectural data”.

The District Court of Hague adjudged that the word "Kebapçı", which is used to name those restaurants selling kebap and grilled meat products, is a trademark; and the word cannot be used by those other than the trademark owner in the Netherlands.

A restaurant that was opened in Amsterdam in 2017, Kebapçı, registered the name as a trademark in the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg). Another restaurant that was opened in Hague at the beginning of this year was named 'Kebapçı Den Haag' and used a similar logo to the one of the said restaurants. The Kebapçı in Amsterdam requested that the restaurant in Hague change its name and logo. However, Kebapçı Den Haag refused this request. With that, the restaurant in Amsterdam, which is the owner of the brand name 'Kebapçı', took the case to the court and defended that the restaurant in Hague committed a breach of trademark.

The trainings that we organize with the aim of getting employees and academicians to recognize the concept of patents and to make both academic studies and industrial studies more efficient are continuing. "Patent Expertise Development Training", which we carried out in cooperation with Bursa Uludag University Continuous Education Application Research Center, starts on January 18, 2022.

The "2020 Service Export Champions" event organized by the Service Exporters’ Association has been completed. Among the 51 companies that ranked in the top three in 17 categories with their successful performances in 2020, as Destek Patent, we were the first in the "Consultancy, Financial Advisory and Support Services" category. We would like to thank our stakeholders who walked with us on this journey...

Emerging as a global automobile brand whose intellectual property rights belongs 100 percentage to Turkey, TOGG also determined its logo after the brand name. In the logo design, two arrows fuse to form a gemstone in the middle, symbolizing the coming together of East and West.