Readings on law, finance and technology. Start with a question or explore the connections between topics.
Review the liquidation process, investor records and any fact-specific claims against responsible parties without conflating them.
Publication records and clearly labelled sample content.
In-depth work bringing together the rules, what changed and practical implementation steps.
This guide converts the EU design regime fully applicable since 1 July 2026 into an end-to-end portfolio plan for businesses supplying products and digital interfaces from Türkiye to the EU, from pre-filing decisions through licensing and enforcement.
Official Designs Bulletin No. 492 dated 9 September 2026 starts a matter-specific three-month administrative opposition period for each published design. This guide brings together the statutory grounds, novelty and overall-impression tests, evidence chain, fee and submission stages, the Board decision and the two-month route to judicial review.
The second phase of the EU design reform, in force from 1 July 2026, requires coordinated management of new representation rules tying protection to visible features, dynamic and animated files, multiple applications of up to 50 designs, priority and deferment calendars and matter-specific transitional provisions.
International protection is not a single filing exercise. Trade mark and patent routes differ in representation, address-for-service and national-stage requirements; the right structure makes the portfolio manageable from the outset.
How should copyright, employee and contractor contributions, written assignments, open source and the patent boundary be managed in one chain of title as software moves from idea to product?
Sample content is editorial draft material, not published work attributed to Faruk Aktay or current legal advice.
Contributions by Faruk Aktay and the Aktay team. Turkish titles and descriptions are editorial translations; original publications are in English.
Faruk Aktay’s contribution on connecting decision inputs, model versions and authority into a defensible evidence record.
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Publication announcement ↗Faruk Aktay’s Türkiye chapter. First published in ICLG – Vertical Agreements and Dominant Firms 2026, Global Legal Group.
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Read original publication ↗Faruk Aktay’s article examining visibility, control and enforceability in cross-border investment.
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Publication announcement ↗The Aktay team’s Türkiye contribution to the Law and Practice and Trends and Developments chapters.
Faruk Aktay · Ayşe Müge Aktay · İrina Gül Coşkun
Read original publication ↗Law and Practice and Trends and Developments chapters on banking regulation. An archive publication reflecting the 2024 framework.
Faruk Aktay · Müge Aktay · Ufuk Anıl Uyalhas · Metin Saki Uzun
Read original publication ↗Publications should be read in their historical context. This section contains bibliographic records and descriptions; full texts are available through the source links.
Law, finance and technology. Weekly, monthly and quarterly perspectives.