Today, patent attorneys, lawyers working in the intellectual property field and Sakpatenti staff members are familiarizing with the Practice Papers published by Sakpatenti. The main purpose of the seminar, organized within the EU-Georgia Intellectual Property Project (EUGIPP), is to increase transparency, legal certainty and predictability for applicants, examiners and any other interested parties regarding examination of trademark and design applications. The event was opened by Mr. Mindia Davitadze, Chairman of the National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia Sakpatenti, and Mr. Catalin German, Deputy Head of Cooperation Section at the Delegation of the European Union to Georgia.
The “General Course on Intellectual Property” (DL 101GE) was customized and translated into the Georgian language through cooperation of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Sakpatenti. Currently, the Georgian course has up to 500 graduates. Sakpatenti Chairman hosted the students who received the highest scores during the Spring Session and handed over to them certificates of the WIPO Academy in solemn ceremony. Mr. Mindia Davitadze familiarized the students with the decision of the Office concerning financing for them the WIPO Academy advanced level training course (DL 302).
To develop the intellectual property field in Georgia, increase the busines sector involvement and popularise the Georgian IP subject-matters, Sakpatenti and the Georgian Chamber of Culture start implementation of joint projects.
The possibility of registration of wine, “Maghraani Kisi”, as a new Georgian Appellation of Origin was discussed at the meeting held in the village of Maghraani, Akhmeta municipality, attended by the representatives of legislative and executive authorities, as well as wine producers and winegrowers.
Concerning the information broadcasted on one of the TV channels yesterday, National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia “SAKPATENTI”, would like to inform the public and emphasize that one of main principles of SAKPATENTI’s activities is political neutrality.
In April-May, 2020, for the management of SAKPATENTI, it became known that the Head of Trademarks, Geographical Indications and Designs Department, Irakli Kasradze, had under examination process the trademark applications mentioned in TV broadcast. The actions of the Head of the Department pertaining the registration process raised questions about the possible use of the registration process of these trademarks for political purposes. In order to avoid discrediting and damage to the reputation of the organization, Mr. Kasradze was deprived of his delegated authority on the basis of the decision of SAKPATENTI’s management. The trademark applied for by one of the TV companies has been registered, without his involvement and within the terms prescribed by the legislation fully in compliance with the requirements of the law and the relevant notice was immediately sent to the applicant company. The other trademark mentioned in the TV broadcast has been registered earlier, in May, 2020.
We would like to once again highlight that the National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia SAKPATENTI is respecting its internationally acknowledged authority and high reputation both inside the country and abroad. Therefore, SAKPATENTI will not allow attempts of misuse of the position for political purposes and will take all necessary measures to prevent the latter in future as well.
National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia – Sakpatenti issues legal protection document on utility model. Its main technical achievement is board safety and convenience on a water surface as well as while transporting and storying.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in order to promote cooperation among training centres of intellectual property offices, organized a round table “Exchange of Best Practices between Training Centres”.
Today, on July 15, 2020, representatives of the public and the private sectors discussed in the Parliament of Georgia one of the mains challenges of creative industries in Georgia – the problem of piracy. The dialogue between the sectors was organized within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Economic Security Program, with the support of the deputies of the Sector Economy and Economic Policy Committee of the Parliament of Georgia.
As of July 14, 2020, up to 60 000 terms of goods and services are available in the Georgian language in the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), trademark search tool - TMClass.. The above-mentioned will give an opportunity to Georgian and foreign users to search and translate automatically any term related to goods and services into and from 44 languages available, in order to file their trademark applications.