WEBINAR DETAILS
Date: 15 April 2021
Time: 2:00 PM UTC
Duration: 60 min
Language: English
Format: Online
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WEBINAR DESCRIPTION

Turkey: World IP Day – Conversation on Significant Role of IP on SMEs’ Growth: The Story of WeWalk

Gün + Partners will once again celebrate the World IP Day with a discussion on significant role of IP on SMEs’ growth: the story of WeWalk.

Topics
• Why “WeWalk”?: What it is? How did it grow? What are contributions of IP rights during WeWalk’s journey? 
• Common problems of SMEs in their day-to-day activities, focused on IP field
• Importance of IP for SMEs, importance of choosing the right trademark
• IP disputes/problems that WeWalk faced through its journey
• Q&A

SPEAKERS
Güldeniz Dogan Alkan

Güldeniz Dogan Alkan joined the firm in 2006 and has been a partner since 2017. Güldeniz is both lawyer and a trademark and patent attorney specializing in Intellectual Property law. She focuses on trademark and design, and copyright as well as unfair competition.

Güldeniz advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters including implementing IP protection and enforcement strategies, and represents clients before the Ankara IP courts and represents clients before courts in cancellation, infringement and other types of action. She also works in IP enforcement where she supervises and drafts oppositions and appeals on trademark and design applications before the TÜRKPATENT.

She represents foreign, multinational and Turkish clients from numerous business sectors including food and beverage, fashion, cosmetics, textile, electronics, entertainment, hotel and tourism, media and entertainment, pharmaceuticals, radio and TV broadcasting, telecoms, tobacco on all aspects of Intellectual Property and regulatory matters.

Kürsat Ceylan

Kürsat Ceylan was born in 1986 and He is blind from birth. During his university years, he was selected to attend the YGA Leadership Program as one of 50 participants out of 50,000 applicants. He volunteered on projects for the socioeconomic development of visually impaired people (VIP). So far, he lead various  spearheading projects for VIP. Currently Kursat Ceylan is the co-founder of WeWALK Technology INC, which focuses on mobility solutions  for VIP. 
1. World Mobile Congress Award, (2 times) 
2. WeWALK Smart Cane, Best invention of 2019 by Time Magazine  
3. WeWALK Smart Cane, Edison Award 
4. Fortune 40 under 40: 40 of Turkey's Brightest Young Entrepreneurs

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