Founded in 1984 by Gürsen M. Sevinç in Ankara, Grup Ofis gives representation and juridical services to approximately 10.000 domestic and foreign clients regarding industrial property rights such as trademark, patent, industrial design and utility model. Today, Grup Ofis is one of the leading trademark and patent offices in Turkey through its technical equipment renewed in terms of recent conditions; trademark, patent and industrial design programs; capability of making applications to any countries established industrial property rights; perception of fighting with unfair competition and confusion and rational price policy. Our general and indispensable principles are; commitment to legislation and business ethics, privacy, honesty, speed, fair treatment, faith and friendship. Making profits out of announcing other’s demands in the same sector, accepting unfair charges are against our work ethics that we have executed for years. Grup Ofis is the first trademark and patent office which has TSE (Turkish Standards Institute) Service Adequacy Certificate. Our company also has ISO 9001:2000 Certificate. Our firm operates exclusively in the fields of industrial property and provides services in all aspects in respect of Trade and Service Marks, Patents, Utility Models, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications, Copyright, Plant Varieties, Domain Names and other types of protection available in Turkey and in any other country of interest, such as: ? searching ? filing and registration ? renewals for trademarks, patents, industrial designs ? oppositions and appeals ? legal counsel and assistance ? Watch and monitoring services ? Renewal services Also we give great attention to building up a wide variety of contacts with our colleagues around the world and therefore, in order to improve of our attorney’s skills, we regularly participate in a lot of international IP conferences worldwide like INTA, AIPPI, MARQUES and PTMG annual conferences.
