Expertise
Güldeniz Doğan Alkan joined the firm in 2006 and has been a partner since 2017. Güldeniz is both lawyer and a trademark and patent attorney specializing in Intellectual Property law. She focuses on trademark and design, and copyright as well as unfair competition.
Güldeniz advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters including implementing IP protection and enforcement strategies, and represents clients before the Ankara IP courts (including actions against the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office) and represents clients before courts in cancellation, infringement and other types of action. She also works in IP enforcement where she supervises and drafts oppositions and appeals on trademark and design applications before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office.
She represents foreign, multinational and Turkish clients from numerous business sectors including food and beverage, fashion, cosmetics, textile, electronics, entertainment, hotel and tourism, media and entertainment, pharmaceuticals, radio and TV broadcasting, telecoms, tobacco on all aspects of Intellectual Property and regulatory matters.
Practice Areas
Speaking Engagements
IP Challenges in the Age of GenAI, MARQUES Webinar, Speaker, 26.06.2024
CJEU Decision Review VIII - Resurrecting “Nehera”: Is it Free-Riding or Tribute?, Gün + Partners Webinar, Moderator, 28.09.2023
Patent Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training - Law, Association of Patent and Trademark Attorneys, Instructor, Istanbul, 19.06.2023
Seminar on Dispute Resolution Procedure in the New Internet Domain Name System and Its Effects on Practice, Ankara Bar Association Intellectual Property and Competition Law Board, Moderator, Ankara, Turkey, 28.03.2023
Trademark Law in Turkey Key Developments and Predictions 2022, Gün + Partners Webinar, Speaker, Istanbul, Turkey, 03.06.2022
ABAD Decision Review - III: “Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini v. EUIPO - J-M.- E.V. e hijos, SRL ”decision, Gün + Partners Webinar, Moderator, 17.02.2021
Key Developments and Predictions for Trademark Law in Turkey - 2020 With a Focus on the Impacts of the COVID-19, Gün + Partners Webinar, Speaker, 18.05.2020
Law and Trademark law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association - Trademark Attorneyship 2nd level Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Ankara, Turkey, 04.01.2020
Law and IP law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association - Trademark Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Ankara, Turkey, 10.11.2019
Law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association – Patent Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Ankara, Turkey, 03.11.2019
Law and IP law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association – Trademark Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Istanbul, Turkey, 20.10.2019
Law and IP law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association – Trademark Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Istanbul, Turkey, 13.10.2019
Law and IP law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association – Trademark Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Ankara, Turkey, 29.09.2019
Law, Patent and Trademark Attorneys Association – Patent Attorneyship Pre-Exam Training, Instructor, Ankara, Turkey, 15.09.2019
Recent EU Case Law and Turkish Court of Appeals Precedents on Trademark, Gün + Partners – World IP Day, Moderator, Istanbul, Turkey, 26.04.2019
Turkey’s New IP Code and Key Changes for Trademarks, Gün + Partners Seminar, Panellist, Istanbul, Turkey, 13.04.2018
Trademark Infringement under Turkish Law, Model Court of Justice 2018, Speaker, Ankara, Turkey, 09.02.2018
Turkey’s new Industrial Property Code (No. 6769), Gün + Partners Seminar, Speaker, Paris, France, 05.04.2017
Associations
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European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA), Member of Publication Committee
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Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)
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International Trademark Association (INTA)
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Patent and Trademark Attorneys’ Association of Turkey (PEM), Board Member
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Association of Trademark and Design Law Practitioners (APRAM)
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Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG)
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Intellectual Property and Competition Law Commission of Ankara Bar
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The Association of European Trade Mark Owners (MARQUES), Member of Designs Team
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Mediation and Dispute Resolution Center (TOBBUYUM), Domain Names Board Member
Education
- 2021, Faculty of Law, Paris II Panthéon-Assas University, Paris LL.B.
- 2013, Faculty of Business Administration, Anadolu University, Eskişehir MA
- 2011, European Law, Gazi University, Ankara LL.M.
- 2005, Faculty of Law, Galatasaray University, Istanbul LL.B.
- 2001, Charles de Gaulle French High School, Ankara