Where Legal Foresight Meets Business Impact
Kerim Yardımcı is a senior partner recognised for his leadership in patent, trademark, and anti-counterfeiting disputes, and for driving some of Türkiye’s most significant enforcement initiatives. He aligns litigation with commercial strategy across the life sciences, luxury, and technology sectors, turning legal foresight into tangible business outcomes.
Kerim has been at the forefront of precedent-setting actions — from suspending marketing authorisations despite the Bolar exemption to leading Türkiye’s first use patent enforcement cases against generics. Clients trust his ability to transform critical disputes into strategic leverage, and to deliver results that extend beyond litigation into real market impact.
Selected cases demonstrating strategic impact and precedent-setting results.
- Pharma (Multi-Jurisdictional Patent Litigation) – Coordinated the Turkish leg of a 20-jurisdiction patent dispute, achieving early outcomes favouring the rights holder.
- Pharma (Biosimilar Patent Strategy) – Advises a multinational on enforcing its manufacturing patent against anticipated biosimilar launches, shaping global strategy and risk management.
- Technology (Anti-Counterfeiting) – Leads a large-scale enforcement programme combining border measures, customs training, and criminal action, with 92% success across 165 raids and over 50,000 seizures since 2020.
- Luxury (Trademark & Distribution) – Represented a global luxury brand in a landmark trademark dispute, obtaining full injunctive relief and securing an early settlement in favour of the client.
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Lexology — October 2025 - Global Patent Litigation Strategy: Navigating Cross-Border IP Disputes in a Fragmented Legal Landscape
Lexology — July 2025 - Trademark Rights Are Business Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide to Protection, Enforcement and Monetisation
Lexology — July 2025 - Legal Protection of Non-Traditional Trademarks under Turkish Law: Overview of Supreme Court Decisions
Lexology — July 2025 - Preliminary Injunction Order Against the Turkish Generic Pharma Company
Lexology — September 2024
University of Geneva - double major in law and finance
Languages: Turkish, English, French
- AIPPI
- AIPPI Program Committe
- INTA
- LES MARQUES
- FICPI
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