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Ankara Patent Bureau continues to dominate the market as a leader in the IP field and is recognised by peers as a firm that represents some of the biggest holding companies in patent prosecution. The firm is also praised for its trade mark work, one competitor notes: "We know the firm more in trade mark prosecution as they have so many filings for trade marks. It's a very old company and close to the patent authority also." As well as a head office in Ankara, the firm has an office in Istanbul and serves clients including Mazda Motor Corporation, Honda, LG Electronices and Deutsche Amphibolin-Werke Von Robert Murjahn Stiftung & Co. In June 2010 the firm advised Erbak Uludag Mesrubat in proceedings against Coca-Cola and the Turkish Patent Institute. The client requested cancellation of the Re-examination and Evaluation Board decision that rejected the uludag zero trade mark on the grounds that it was confusingly similar to the Coca-Cola Zero trade mark. A further example of work the firm has been involved in relates to advising AKEMI Chemisch Technisch Spezialfabrik in a trade mark infringement case against Alchemy Mermer Kimyasallari San. The client sought to stop unfair use of the word Alchemy on the grounds that it is not only similar to its own trade mark Akemi but in the same colours and relating to the same sector.


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