WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONIP/N/1/TUR/1/Add.2
12 February 1999
(99-0569)
Council for Trade-Related Aspects
of Intellectual Property RightsOriginal:  English
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS
UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE AGREEMENT
TURKEY
Addendum
By means of a communication from its Permanent Mission, dated 11 February 1999, the
following notification has been received from Turkey.
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THE SITUATION IN THE FIELD OF PATENT PROTECTION OF
PHARMACEUTICAL PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS AND
INFORMATION ABOUT THE APPLICATIONS IN TURKEY
Patent protection of pharmaceuticals had been excluded from the patent protection by the
Transitional Provision 4 of the Decree Law Nº 551 related to the patent protection of pharmaceutical
processes and products, until 1 January 2000 for processes and 1 January 2005 for products.
Although this provision was compatible with subparagraphs 1, 2 and 4 of Article 65 of the
TRIPS Agreement, it has been amended by a new Decree Law Nº 566 on 22 September 1995.  The
date of the patent protection of both pharmaceutical processes and products has been changed as  of
1 January 1999 with this amendment.
The above-mentioned amendment means that all the patent applications related to the
processes and products of the pharmaceuticals are being filed by the Turkish Patent Institute since
1 January 1995.
According to Article 70.8 of the TRIPS Agreement, the total number of patent applications
received by the Turkish Patent Institute between 1 January 1995 and 8 January 1999 is 1128.
Since 1 January 1999, the Turkish Patent Institute has started to grant patent certificates to
238 of these patent applications of which the necessary examination processes are finalized.
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