Biography • Trademarks

Mehmet Nazim Aydin Deris graduated with first class honours from the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva in June 1968. He is fluent in French, English, Italian and German and has a spoken command of Greek. Mr Deris has been shareholder and manager since July 1971 of the firm Deris Patents & Trademarks Agency AS, (a public limited company) which provides full-range services for securing, maintaining and defending (search, registration, renewal, opposition) intellectual and industrial property rights, namely patents, utility models, trade and service marks, designs, geographical indications, domain names, plant varieties, semi-conductor topographies, and copyright. Mr Deris also is the senior partner of Deris Attorney-At-Law Partnership (a legal person registered with the Istanbul Bar), providing legal representation and services in contentious or non-contentious matters for unfair competition, industrial property, copyright, trade names, domain names, mass media, advertising, consumer protection, customs seizures. He has acted and taken part as a lawyer and legal counsel in matters involving litigation, court proceedings, suspension of release proceedings with customs, the registration/renewal, licensing and defence of industrial/intellectual property rights in Turkey and abroad on behalf of foreign and Turkish clients.

He has been an active member since the early 1980s of different commissions engaged in establishing new legislation concerning industrial property at the State Planning Organisation and the Ministry of Trade and Industry, preparing studies pertaining to diverse subjects to be submitted to the concerned commissions. Mr Deris conceived, developed, and implemented proprietary software and the database for the management, follow-up, and search of industrial property rights.

He is now a member of LES/Italy (Licensing Executive Society) and a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), New York. He has prepared a summary of jurisprudence pertaining to Turkey since 1993 covering landmark court decisions regarding unfair competition/trade mark protection, published in INTA's Annual Review. He is member of the Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG) London, England, for whom he made two presentations at the symposiums held in Istanbul respectively 1992 on "Pharmaceutical Trade Marks in Turkey" and in October 2008 on "The situation of IP rights in relation to the European Union legislation and the outline of the IP environment in view of the continuing accession negotiations opened in October 2005 for the EU membership of Turkey". The presentation of October 2008 was further submitted to the European Commission Directorate General for Trade upon their request.

As a European patent attorney, between 2001 and 2007 Mr Deris has been a council member of EPI (the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office) and is now a member of the EPPC (European Patent Practice Committee) and of the litigation committee. As a long-time independent member of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI) he has been actively involved in establishing the AIPPI Turkish National Group in 2007 which was further developed into a legal entity under the name of "Association for the protection of intellectual property", with approximately 120 members, of which he has been the first president for two terms until November 2010.

Biography • Who's Who Legal Turkey: Intellectual Property

Mehmet Nazim Aydin Deris graduated with first class honours from the faculty of law at the University of Geneva in June 1968. He is fluent in French, English, Italian and German and has a spoken command of Greek. Mr Deris has been shareholder and manager since July 1971 of the firm Deris Patents & Trademarks Agency AS, (a public limited company) which provides full-range services for securing, maintaining and defending (search, registration, renewal, opposition) intellectual and industrial property rights, namely patents, utility models, trade and service marks, designs, geographical indications, domain names, plant varieties, semi-conductor topographies, and copyright. Mr Deris also is the senior partner of Deris Attorney-At-Law Partnership (a legal person registered with the Istanbul Bar), providing legal representation and services in contentious or non-contentious matters for unfair competition, industrial property, copyright, trade names, domain names, mass media, advertising, consumer protection, customs seizures. He has acted and taken part as a lawyer and legal counsel in matters involving litigation, court proceedings, suspension of release proceedings with customs, the registration/renewal, licensing and defence of industrial/intellectual property rights in Turkey and abroad on behalf of foreign and Turkish clients.

He has been an active member since the early 1980s of different commissions engaged in establishing new legislation concerning industrial property at the State Planning Organisation and the Ministry of Trade and Industry, preparing studies pertaining to diverse subjects to be submitted to the concerned commissions. Mr Deris conceived, developed, and implemented proprietary software and the database for the management, follow-up, and search of industrial property rights.

He is now a member of LES/Italy (Licensing Executive Society) and a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), New York. He has prepared a summary of jurisprudence pertaining to Turkey since 1993 covering landmark court decisions regarding unfair competition/trade mark protection, published in INTA's Annual Review. He is member of the Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG) London, England, for whom he made two presentations at the symposiums held in Istanbul respectively 1992 on "Pharmaceutical Trade Marks in Turkey" and in October 2008 on "The situation of IP rights in relation to the European Union legislation and the outline of the IP environment in view of the continuing accession negotiations opened in October 2005 for the EU membership of Turkey". The presentation of October 2008 was further submitted to the European Commission Directorate General for Trade upon their request.

As a European patent attorney, between 2001 and 2007 Mr Deris has been a council member of EPI (the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office) and is now a member of the EPPC (European Patent Practice Committee) and of the litigation committee. As a long-time independent member of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI) he has been actively involved in establishing the AIPPI Turkish National Group in 2007 which was further developed into a legal entity under the name of "Association for the protection of intellectual property", with approximately 120 members, of which he has been the first president for two terms until November 2010.

Other Practice Areas

M N Aydin Deris also features in the following practice areas:

• Patents