RightPRO IP Legal

Services

With a 15+ experience in Intellectual Property Law, we assist our national and international clients on protecting their intangible assets such as their trademarks, patents, designs, copyrights, domain names worldwide with a specialized and experienced team.

Trademark

A trademark is a sign capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one enterprise from those of other enterprises. Trademarks are protected by intellectual property rights. We provide a wide range of trademark prosecution transactions (applications, oppositions, assignments, renewals, litigations, appeals.. etc) before TURKPATENT, UKIPO as well as international trademark applications through WIPO(Madrid Protocol) and/or with our reliable local partners in the related jurisdictions. You can reach us for these processes around the globe:
* Performing trademark availability searches and providing opinion on the registration of the same;

* Finding the best filing strategies, preparing, filing and prosecuting trademark applications up to registration stage;

* Reporting and responding to official actions from the respective intellectual property offices;

* Conducting opposition proceedings to defend or oppose the grant of trademarks registrations;

* Initiating and defending infringement, passing off and unfair competition actions;

* Drafting of license, assignment agreements;

* Prosecuting appeals and rectification/cancellation actions before the offices and courts.

* Monitoring services

* Recordal of changes of proprietor's name, address, and legal status

* Recordal of mergers and assignments

* Recordal of licences

* Cancellation and invalidation actions

Patent

A patent is an exclusive right to a product or a process that generally provides a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. For your application to be successful, your invention must be new, useful and inventive or innovative. When granted, a patent will give exclusive commercial rights to your invention. Before the application for registration, it should be searched that whether your invention has patentability criteria. By courtesy of our colleagues in other IP firms, we can provide patent services to our national clients in all over the world. We provide patent services that include;
* Patent search services before filing to evaluate patentability of your invention,

* Drafting and filing patent applications (including filing patent application in other countries or regions, specifically PCT applications, European patent applications and Eurasian patent applications, EP Validations and conventional patent applications in the counties of interest),

* Active prosecution and close monitoring of pending patent applications that includes reporting and preparing responses to official action,

* Handling of pre-grant and post-grant opposition,

* Patent infringement cases,

* Appeals and strategizing amendment of claims for maximizing impact,

* Patent Litigation Support

* Freedom to Operate

* Patent Monitoring

* Tracking the application from filing to grant.

Copyright

Copyright is a type of intellectual property that protects original works of authorship as soon as an author fixes the work in a tangible form of expression. Exhaustive lists of works covered by copyright are usually not to be found in legislation. We provide services to our clients in scope of full protection of copyright including mainly the following work;
* Negotiating and drafting copyright licenses and assignments

* Copyright infringement cases,

* Preliminary injunction decisions,

* C&D letters,

* Copyright enforcement

* Takedown proceedings regarding the infringing rights.

Domain Names

Domain names have become an integral part of IP rights and they should not be disregarded when developing branding strategy. We assist our clients for protection of their domain names from registration proceedings to management of domain name portfolios and including their representation before the administrative and judicial authorities in domain name disputes. We provide services to our clients for following;
* Internet domain name administration (registration and administration)

* Internet domain litigation and ADR (UDRP, Country code Top Level Domains, .EU Domain name Disputes before authorized domain name dispute resolution provides such as WIPO, NAF, Nominet, Czech Arbitration Court.. etc).

Design

A design refers to the features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornamentation which give a product a unique appearance, and must be new and distinctive. Industrial design applications are national. If you plan using your design in other countries, you should make applications for registration in each country, within a certain time period . We provide a full range of industrial design services from searches to licensing through prosecution and enforcement to help our clients manage and protect their valuable design portfolio throughout the design life cycle, both domestically and internationally. Some example works that you can do by reaching to us:
* Filing design applications

* Oppositions

* Renewals

* Recordal of changes of proprietor's name, address, and legal status

* Recordal of mergers and assignments

* Design infringement and unfair competition actions,

* Design invalidation actions Cancellation actions

* Recordal of licences

Consultancy

The global services RightPro IP & Legal Consultancy provides are as follows:
* Trademark, patent, industrial design and copyright (will be referred as “IP Rights” hereafter) applications and registrations

* Prosecution and maintenance of IP Rights

* Principal and supplemental registrations, including international registrations in any country in the world,

* Counselling, including IP Rights use and portfolio management of our clients
* Maintenance of IP Rights

* Transactions, such as licensing, assignment, and franchising- including drafting and reviewing these agreements with regard to IP Rights

* Due diligence arising from various transactions involving IP Rights

* IP Rights infringement analysis

* Civil litigation including IP Rights infringement, counterfeiting, non-use cancellation and cancellation lawsuits grounding on similarity, dilution, taking unfair advantage in Turkiye and with our reliable local partners, all around the world,

* Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT)’s and UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO)’s prosecution stages, including oppositions, appeals and recordals of changes. These services are also provided worldwide, with co-ordination of reliable local attorneys in other countries.

* Patent validations and applications

* Domain Name Dispute Resolutions before WIPO, NOMINET, NAF, Czech Arbitration Court, as well as court of jurisdictions at the litigation stage

* Turkish Law Consultancy in re the other areas of law: corporate law, contracts, real estate & property, investments, data protection, IT Law and so on.

Team

Ahu Guneyli-Havelock

ABOUT

As a qualified registered lawyer before Istanbul Bar (Turkiye) and charted trademark attorney of TURKPATENT, Ahu has been practicing IP Law since 2007, following the completion of his LL.M degree in IP and IT Law from Washington University School of Law. Ahu has also been certified as a trademark paralegal in 2021 by UK CITMA (Chartered Institution of Trade Mark Attorneys), as she has been practicing before UKIPO as well, through her company, RightPro IP & Legal Consultancy, which she has founded in 2019 in London.

With a passion for intellectual property and information technology, Ahu has built a reputation as a skilled and dedicated lawyer, committed to providing clients with the best possible representation in a complex and ever-changing legal landscape. As a legal professional with over 15 years of experience, Ahu has a deep understanding of the challenges faced by clients seeking to protect their intellectual property rights. Whether working with entrepreneurs, start-ups, or established corporations, Ahu is committed to providing effective and efficient legal solutions, tailored to meet the unique needs of each client.

EDUCATION

Washington University School of Law St. Louis, Missouri, USA --- Master of Laws(LL.M), Intellectual Property & Technology Law May 2007

Cag University Faculty of Law Mersin, Turkey --- Master of Laws in Criminal Law taken all the courses but thesis not completed

Cag University Faculty of Law Mersin, Turkey --- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) June, 2004

AWARDS

World Trademark Review- Named as Top Tier Trademark Professionals in Turkey for the years - 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019

Fulbright Scholarship, 2006-2007

Valedictorian(Highest Ranked), Cag University Faculty of Law, 2004 (GPA 3.42/4)