While the relevant article regulating the transfer of authority to examine the requests for revocation of trademarks to the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (“the Office”) was not yet entered into force and there were still a level of uncertainty concerning the procedure, the first development in this regard took place on October 23, 2023 when the Office published and opened the “Draft Regulation for Amendment of the Regulation on the Implementation of the […]

A finding of liability for direct patent infringement in the U.S. is typically based on the infringing actions of a single entity, either a natural or legal person.

However, under the doctrine of “divided infringement” (sometimes referred to as “joint infringement”), a single entity can perform fewer than every step of a patented method or make use of fewer than every element of a patented system and still be liable for direct infringement.

Such liability for […]