Services We Provide to Our Academics:

National projects

• Making announcements of open project calls from the YUTTO website (news and announcements tab) and social media,

• Execution of administrative processes at the application stage,

• Organizing project supports information days/training workshops in cooperation with funding institutions.

Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights about informing and directing

Licenses are typically granted when the industry partner has business driven objectives related to technical milestones for which YU IP (Intellectual Property) is needed.  IP is licensed under a variety of terms to suit the business needs of the industry partner.

• Making a preliminary evaluation of whether the outputs obtained as a result of the projects and laboratory studies carried out within the body of Yeditepe University may be subject to a patent/utility model,

• Carrying out the necessary works in order to protect the industrial designs and the required trademark rights,

• Carrying out the procedures for obtaining a domain name,

• Providing liaison between the inventors and the representative offices,

• Informing and directing on Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights,

• Receiving Notification of the Invention,

• Performing/checking the preliminary patent investigation,

• Preparing/checking of the patent text

• Execution of the application procedures / giving instructions,

• Checking the appropriateness of the application request form,

• Pursuing the process of patent procedure,

• Preparing Expert Opinion for the research report

• Preparing Expert Opinion for review reports,

• Performing of European Patent (EP) Application and monitoring of applications,

• Follow-up of inventions made to the PCT system, which has 144 member countries known as international patent applications, for each country,

• Delivery of patent documents to the inventors,

● Documentation and archiving of patent applications,

• Informing the inventors about the stage of patent application status,

• Participating in fairs and events to promote university inventions on different platforms,

• Examining the patent rights in the consultancy contracts of the faculty members

• Organizing necessary training seminars in the field of patents within the university,

• Execution of Confidentiality Agreements, Protocols, IP Directive studies required within the scope of Intellectual and Industrial Rights and sharing these documents,

• Collecting data for academic publication incentives every year for the inventions made by faculty members with a patent registration decision,

• Creating a patent portfolio,

• Creation of materials such as posters and brochures for the promotion of inventions.