Patents
According to Turkish Patent System, similar to the patent laws in Europe and other developed countries, the following issues are comprehensively laid down;

• Granting by examination and non- examination system,
• Utility model certificate,
• Patentability criteria,
• (novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability)
• Worldwide novelty,
• Patent protection for pharmaceuticals and their production methods,
• Publication of applications,
• Opposition by third parties,
• Protection terms starting from date of application (7 years for non-examined patents, 10 years for utility models and 20 years for examined patents),
• Compulsory license compatible with TRIPS agreement and
• Employee inventions.