Introduction For startups, intellectual property is often the most important asset reviewed during a funding round. A company may have a promising product, strong founders, early customers and attractive revenue projections, but if it cannot prove that it owns or controls its intellectual property, investors may hesitate, reduce valuation, demand additional warranties or postpone closing. […]
Introduction For a startup, a domain name is more than a website address. It is the digital gateway to the brand, the first point of contact for customers, investors, partners, suppliers and search engines. A strong domain name can support credibility, search visibility, online sales, investor confidence and brand recognition. A weak or unprotected domain […]
Introduction A strong business idea may be the beginning of a successful company, product, platform, mobile application, manufacturing process or service model. However, many entrepreneurs in Turkey make the same legal mistake: they believe that the “idea” itself can be registered and fully monopolized. Turkish intellectual property law does not protect a business idea merely […]
For startups in Turkey, digital products are often the first real source of value. A mobile app, SaaS platform, website, online course, design library, video content system, AI-enabled interface, or digital marketplace may have little physical presence, yet still contain the company’s most commercially important assets. Turkish law does protect those assets, but not through […]
For an e-commerce startup, the brand is often the first real business asset the market recognizes. Customers may not know the legal entity behind the business, the supply chain, or the software architecture, but they quickly learn the store name, app name, logo, domain, and marketplace identity. In Turkey, that makes brand protection a legal […]
For Turkish startups, a mobile app is rarely protected by a single legal right. An app usually combines a name, logo, icon, interface, source code, backend logic, database structure, content, user flows, analytics, contracts, and personal-data processing. Under Turkish law, those elements do not fall under one unified “app right.” They are protected through a […]
Open source software is now part of the default technology stack for many Turkish companies. Startups, SaaS providers, fintechs, e-commerce platforms, AI ventures, industrial software businesses, and enterprise IT teams commonly build products on top of open source components, frameworks, libraries, developer tools, and infrastructure software. But the fact that code is “open source” does […]
For SaaS startups, software licensing is rarely just a commercial template exercise. In Turkey, it sits at the intersection of copyright law, contract law, consumer law, data protection, trade secrets, and sometimes competition law. A startup may think it is simply “selling subscriptions,” but the legal reality is more complex: the code may belong to […]
For Turkish startups, patent strategy is rarely just about legal protection. It is about timing, fundraising, product iteration, disclosure risk, and commercial leverage. A startup that files too early may lock in an immature invention and spend money before product-market fit is clear. A startup that files too late may lose novelty, weaken investor confidence, […]
For startups, a trademark is often the first intellectual property asset that customers actually see. Before investors understand the cap table, before users care about the code base, and before the product matures into a defensible business, the market usually meets the company through a name, logo, app name, service name, or product label. In […]