Türkiye’s Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) launched the Hague System Promotion Project on 24 July 2026 to encourage domestic innovators and foreign applicants to make greater use of the international registration route for industrial designs. The initiative is intended to improve awareness of how a single Hague application can be used to seek protection in Türkiye and multiple overseas markets while simplifying parts of the filing and portfolio-management process.
The project does not itself alter Türkiye’s substantive design protection rules, but it signals a stronger institutional push toward centralized international filing. Businesses considering Türkiye as a market—or using it as a base for wider expansion—should look beyond administrative convenience and review disclosure timing, design grouping, designated jurisdictions and renewal planning before filing. Centralization can reduce duplication, yet weak decisions on scope or sequencing may also affect several markets at once.
