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General Court of the European Union (“General Court”) has considered the decision of the Cancellation Division of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (“EUIPO”) on invalidation of Adidas’ three vertical and parallel black stripes trademark registration. The General Court […]

Turkey’s Council of State has recently ruled that commencing execution proceedings against limited companies’ legal representatives is not mandatory in order to collect from the shareholders the tax debts that cannot be collected from the company itself. According to […]

Upon application of Yozgat 2nd Civil Court of First Instance, the Turkish Constitutional Court has annulled articles 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Law on Transfer of Companies’ Time-Barred Coupon Bond and Share Amounts to the Treasury numbered […]

Turkish Constitutional Court, on the basis of the 1st Tax Court of Kocaeli’s application, has decided that statement “…to be applied to transactions after 2 August 2013” in paragraph 1/(d) of article 76 of the Law on the Amendments […]

Turkish Constitutional Court recently decided that rejection of an appeal request without taking the inadequate notification procedure into account breaches the right of access to court. In the dispute at hand, the applicant (the “Applicant”) used to work in […]

Turkey’s Medicines and Medical Devices Agency (“TMMDA”) announced the information and documents that should be submitted via “online system” within the scope of “e-transformation in public” for import applications of blood products, human medicinal products containing blood products as […]

Turkey has published a draft regulation (“Draft”) to amend the legislation due to the problems encountered in the application of the Regulation on Sales, Advertising and Promotion of Medical Devices published in the Official Gazette number 29001 on 5 […]

Turkey’s Court of Cassation recently ruled that in case of terminating the indefinite-term employment contract due to medical leaves, employers are not obliged to take the employee’s statement. According to paragraph 1/(b) of article 25 of the Labor Law […]

The procedures and principles applicable to real and legal persons, who may produce unlicensed electricity are updated. The primary purpose of the updates introduced with the new Regulation on Unlicensed Electricity Production in Electricity Market (the “Regulation”) and the […]

Secure Mobile Payment and Electronic Document Management System (“System”) will enter into force on 1 September 2019. The System will apply to the following carried out by means of physical/virtual cards or non-physical payment software applications (“Devices Receiving Payment”): […]