Barış Zühtü Kalaycı

Experience

Barış Kalaycı joined the firm in 1997 and has been a Partner since 2010. He is co-chair of the firm’s intellectual property and business crime and anti-corruption practices.

His Intellectual Property practice focuses on trademarks, designs and copyrights. He has been involved in numerous anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy campaigns and civil litigation cases mostly with preliminary injunction requests involving all aspects of IP rights. He also has a special focus on customs IP protection against counterfeit goods being exported, imported and in transit.

Baris also leads the firm’s in-house investigations department which supports the investigative needs of all the firm’s clients and practice groups, especially in anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy matters.

Barış also leads the teams in major business crimes and anti-corruption cases as well as some high profile commercial litigation.

Languages Spoken

Turkish

English

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property

Anti-Counterfeiting

Trademarks and Designs

Copyrights

Professional Memberships

Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI),

Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG)

International Trademark Association (INTA), Enforcement Committee

Ethics & Reputation Society (TEID)

Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA)

Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG)

Patent and Trademark Attorneys’ Association of Turkey (PEM)

Transparency International Turkey