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The number of patent applications submitted to the European Patent Office (EPO) by inventors and companies from Greece is particularly low, according to the data of the European organization.

Patent applications in the Turkish defense industry have increased 50-fold in 20 years. The inventions of local engineers range from conductive fabrics that prevent lightning strikes in airplanes to unmanned vehicles that can enter caves and tunnels

The Ljubljana-based company Aerosol is one of the six recipients of this year's WIPO Global Awards for SMEs that use intellectual property rights to make their business ideas a reality and contribute to a better future by applying innovation and creativity.

Greece is trying to prevent Turkey from patenting its "Turkaegean" trademark used in its tourism campaign in the United States and the European Union. To this end, it has hired Washington, DC-based law firm Steptoe & Johnson, which specializes, among other things, in so-called high-stakes litigation involving trade and border disputes.

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TurkPatent) received 95,373 trademark applications in the first half of 2021, official figures showed on July 26. 

Of those, 87,919, or 92.2%, were domestic, according to a TurkPatent report.

The office received 8,101 patent applications during the same period - 3,570 domestic and 4,531 foreign.

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TurkPatent) received 36,838 trademark applications- 32,877 of them domestic- in the first three months of the current year, official figures showed on April 20. 

The number of trademark applications increased 14% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2020, according to the TurkPatent data.

In comments to Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has backed a proposal by health policy professor and government adviser Ilias Mosialos for European Union countries to jointly purchase patent rights for new vaccines and rapid tests for the detection of coronavirus in a bid to respond more effectively to curbing the pandemic.

Turkey has leaped forward in the field of industrial property seeing a year-on-year rise in trademark, patent, utility model and design applications, the industry and technology minister said on Jan. 22.

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TurkPatent) received 92,387 trademark applications -- 80,938 of them domestic -- during the first three quarters of the current year, official figures showed on Oct. 22.

The head of the State Intellectual Property Administration (NIPA) has announced that the country will strictly implement a strict intellectual property protection system and will not stop building a good environment for innovation and business.

Shen Changyu, director of NIPA, made the comment at the 10th China Intellectual Property Conference in Hangzhou.