Zeynep Seda Alhas

Partner, Gün+Partners

Zeynep Seda Alhas, who graduated from Galatasaray University Faculty of Law in 2006, is both a lawyer and a trademark attorney specializing in Intellectual Property law. She focuses trademark and design, anti-counterfeiting, and copyright. Zeynep’s IP litigation practice focuses on trademarks, designs, unfair competition and copyrights. She advises a wide range of foreign and domestic clients from numerous business sectors on implementing IP protection and enforcement strategies, She has vast experience in civil IP litigation, as well as domain name and unfair competition conflicts, representing clients in cancellation, invalidation, infringement and other civil court actions and domain name ADR proceedings, filing for interlocutory and precautionary injunctions, negotiating and drafting co-existence, settlement and licensing agreements. Zeynep has been involved in numerous anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy campaigns, handled and supervised evidence gathering and criminal raid procedures all around Turkey, and works with the firm’s in-house investigations department closely. She advises on portfolio management strategies and represents clients before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT), and supervises opposition and appeal procedures for trademark, design and well known trademark applications to the TURKPATENT.