Starker IP Partner Dilek Zeybel speaks at NAPA IP Practice Forum 2025

Dilek Zeybel

Managing Partner
Trademark and Patent Attorney
WIPO UDRP Panelist

Education & Profession:

• University of Siegen (Germany): M.A. Literacy, Cultural & Media Studies
• Registered Trademark & Patent Attorney
• WIPO UDRP Panelist
• Certified National Sworn Translator

Practice Area:

• Responsible for international clients in all areas of obtaining and enforcing IP rights
• Managing large IP portfolios
• Led the assignment, merger, and process of IP projects
• Experienced in anti-counterfeit & in use searches projects
• Representation of legal disputes before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office
• Domain Name Dispute Resolution

Dilek is an active member of the INTA professional development committee and has worked for the following previous INTA committees for years.

1/1/2024 – 12/31/2024: PDC Programming Subcommittee
1/1/2022 – 12/31/2023: Professional Development Committee
1/1/2022 – 12/31/2023: Programming Subcommittee
1/1/2016 – 12/31/2017: Famous and Well-Known Marks Committee
1/1/2016 – 12/31/2017: Middle East, Africa, and South Asia Subcommittee
1/1/2014 – 12/31/2015: Enforcement Committee
1/1/2014 – 12/31/2015: Trademark Enforcement Policy Advocacy Subcommittee

Dilek Zeybel Ranked Among the Top 100 Influential Women Leaders in IP Law 2025

Aylin Özgür

Managing Partner | Head of IP
Patent Attorney | Trademark Attorney

Education & Profession:

• Uludag University – Labour Economics and Industrial Relations at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
• Turkish Patent Attorney
• Turkish Trademark Attorney
• Certified Mediator in Criminal Law

Practice Area:

• Responsible for foreign affairs and clients in all areas of obtaining and enforcing IP rights
• Leading large international patent, trademark, and industrial design and plant breeders’ rights projects
• Experienced in anti-counterfeit & in use research projects
• Representation of legal disputes before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office
• Mediator in Criminal Law
• Analysis and preparation of opinions on disputes
• Intellectual Property licensing and valuation studies

Activities in International IP Committees:

• AIPPI – Standing Committee Member on Commercialisation of IP
• ECTA- Anti-Counterfeiting Committee Member (15/07/2019 – 30/06/2021)
• ECTA- Mediation Committee Member (11/04/2025 – active)

Memberships:

• INTA – International Trademark Association
• MARQUES – The European Association of Trademark Owners
• ECTA -European Communities Trademark Association
• AIPPI – International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property