To obtain patent rights of new innovations or utility models enables companies to compete with each other influentially. Patents prevent products to be reproduced, be used or be sold without authorization. The data analysis of Destek Patent for 2014-2018 illustrates that 23686 patent applications have been made by both national and international companies in the technology field in Turkey in the last 5 years. The analysis is revealed by the service classes, pictorial communication, wireless communication networks, digital information transmission, operations - methods and line connectors under the main title of Electrical Communications Techniques.
According to the analysis, 62 percent of the patent applications are made by international companies and 38 percent are made by national companies in Turkey in the last 5 years. The total number of patent applications made by national and international companies has reached to 30000.
Vice Rector
Prof. Dr. Nail Öztaş from Istanbul Gelisim University which one of the universities that supports its students about patents stated that the graduate students tend to obtain patents more than before due to these works. Öztaş said that: “There is an elimination process from the total number of researches to the final product reaching the user. Turkey funds these enterprises through The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and various public institutions for about the last 20-30 years and adopted it as a public policy. Because it is impossible to create products with copyright without allocating fund to R&D.”
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