İDAL Patent Yönetimi - IDAL IP & Law Group

Ersin Dereligil is a European and Turkish Patent Attorney and counsels universities, domestic and international clients on all areas of intellectual property protection, valuations, commercialization and licensing, patent-oriented R&D and technological innovation.

He deals with all kinds of patent issues (except electronics), including the drafting and prosecution of patent applications, FTO, infringements, validity and IP valuations. He has been also involving in trademark counselling particularly on entertainment, textile, tobacco, chemistry and food industries. He served as an expert before the Istanbul Specialized IP Courts, as well.

Ersin is presently providing IP consultancy services to foreign companies and associates, Turkish universities, innovative firms and R&D departments and regularly give seminars on “understanding, protecting, managing and commercializing intellectual property rights”.

Latest Projects Attended

He worked as a national senior expert on the establishment of a TechnoPark-TTO collaboration, drafting manuals for technology transfer within the scope of European Union Technical Support Project (2016).

He was one of the lecturers on the IP basics and commercialization to R&D departments and TTO's within the project headed by the Turkish Ministry of Technology, Science and Industry collaborated by LES Turkey and the TurkPatent (2016-2017).

Ersin is one of the few Turkish certified trainers on the course of “LES 100: Commercializing Technology through the Power of IP Licensing” under LES training modules.

Background and Experience

Ersin has a diploma in Chemical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. His main technical experience is in the area of polymer chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, food chemistry and pharmaceuticals. In graduate studies, his research was the launch of an ethylene manufacturing plant. Before entering into IP profession, he worked as a research scientist on thermodynamics at the university and as an expert on the evaluation of factories’ inventories of chemical wastes at Governmental Institution in Istanbul within the scope of Green Turkey Project.

He entered the patent and trademark profession with Destek Patent in 1997. Three years later after the first launch of Turkish IP attorneyship as a profession, he passed the exams and qualified as both patent attorney and trademark attorney in 1999 and then a European patent attorney in 2001. He is one of the first Turkish attendees for courses on European IP Law at EPO International Academy in France. Before joining IDAL, he held numerous managing positions as head of patent department, office manager, director of foreign affairs and managing partner at Destek Patent (1997-2017). He has lectured for the course of “patents and designs” to engineering departments at Uludag University as a guest teacher for seven years (2001-2007).

Ersin is the author of many articles on the Turkish IP system in several domestic and foreign newspapers and magazines, and a book in Turkish, titled “Understanding Patents For Engineers (in Turkish in 2006)” and has attended more than a hundred seminars as a speaker so far.

Professional affiliations

As an active member of Licensing Executives Society International, he served as the founding president of LES-Turkey (2010-2013) and a board member (2014-2018) there. Besides, Ersin was one of the founding members of AIPPI Turkey (2010).

Apart from his membership at European Patent Institute (EPI), he was also a member of some other international IP associations such as AIPPI, JIPA, MARQUES, INTA, and CIOPORA till 2017.

Personal information

Born in 1971. Married with three sons. Speaking Turkish and English. Leisure interests include sports (sailing and diving), literature and history.

Ersin Dereligil

Partner, Patent Counsel

European Patent Attorney