Employment and Labor Law

Employee Inventions in Turkey

Author: Melisa Sevinc

Pursuant to Industrial Property Law No. 6769 ("IPL"), employee means persons and public servants who dependently provide services to another person under a private law agreement or a similar legal relation, and under the obligation to perform services with respect to particular work designated by the employer. The IPL and the Regulation on Inventions of Employees, Inventions Realized in Higher Education Institutions and in Publicly Supported Projects published in the Official Gazette dated 29.09.2017 and numbered 30195 ("Regulation")i foresees certain rights and obligations for the employees and the employers in the event of realization of an invention by the employee.

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