Mutlu Yıldırım Köse and İrem Girenes Yücesoy of Gün and Partners draw on recent cases to explain the court’s approach to short-word trademarks and consider the weight given to dominant elements
The first instance Civil Court for Intellectual and Industrial Rights (IP court) in its decision rendered in October 2020 pointed out that the use of the subject mark as a domain name solely is not deemed sufficient to prove the use of the mark as a trademark.
