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|purpose        = [[Social:Intellectual property organization|Intellectual property]]
|headquarters   = Hipodrom Cad. 115, Yenimahalle
|location       = [[Place:Ankara|Ankara]], Turkey
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|parent_organization = Ministry of Industry and Commerce
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The '''Turkish Patent Institute''' ({{lang-tr|Türk Patent Enstitüsü}} or TPE) ('''TPI''') is an [[Social:Intellectual property organization|intellectual property organization]] with a special budget being attached to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Republic of Turkey. Established on June 24, 1994 in [[Place:Ankara|Ankara]] as an independent legal entity,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tpe.gov.tr/portal/default2.jsp?sayfa=602 |publisher=Türk Patent Enstitüsü |title=Tarihçe |language=Turkish |access-date=2011-10-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.is/20120805220943/http://www.tpe.gov.tr/portal/default2.jsp?sayfa=602 |archive-date=2012-08-05 |df= }}</ref> it is liable under special judiciary provisions with the objective of supporting the technological development in Turkey and of establishing and protecting of industrial property rights, as well as providing the public with the worldwide information on industrial property rights.

In October 2016, the Turkish Patent Institute has been appointed as International Searching and Preliminary Examining Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). As of October 2016, the appointment was not effective yet.<ref>{{cite journal|date=October 2016|title=Assembly of the PCT Union|journal=PCT Newsletter|publisher=WIPO|volume=2016|issue=10|page=1|url=http://www.wipo.int/edocs/pctndocs/en/2016/pct_news_2016_10.pdf}}</ref>

==Organs and administrative units==
#Managing Board 
#Advisory Board
#Presidency
#Re-examination and Evaluation Board
#Main Administrative Units
#Auxiliary Service Units
#Consultancy Units<ref name="TPE-organs">[http://www.tpe.gov.tr/dosyalar/EN_khk/TPI_DecreeLaw.htm].</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{official|http://www.tpe.gov.tr}}


[[Category:Intellectual property organizations]]

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