Representatives of the National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia – “Sakpatenti” participated in the meeting of the EU-Georgia Sub-Committee on Geographical Indications. The Sub-Committee, which is held annually, is established on the basis of the Association Agreement to regulate issues related to geographical indications between the parties.
The award ceremony of the annual Competition of Young Inventors and Researchers “Leonardo da Vinci” was held at the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia. From the foundation of the competition, the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia – “Sakpatenti” is its loyal supporter and a constant member of the competition commission.
Within the joint project (GESIP) of Sakpatenti and the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI), at the Head Office of Sakpatenti in Mtskheta, three-day training started for examiners of the Department of Inventions and New Varieties and Breeds, which will be held on November 14-16. The main topic of the training is the freedom to operate (FTO) search in the field of information and communication technologies. The freedom to operate search is the process of study according to which the risk of infringement of patents of third parties are assessed during commercial use of a given product or technology.
With the support of the National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia – “Sakpatenti”, the traditional annual festival “Chacha” was held in Telavi.
Farmers, peasants, small cellars and chacha producing companies of all the eight municipalities of Kakheti Region participated in the event. The festival is aimed to encourage and support them by revealing the best samples of chacha produced by them, as well as to popularize the spirit made from grape chacha (peels and pits of grapes) as a protected geographical indication and its wholesome properties.
Within the campaign “Donate Blood, Save Life”, staff members of the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia – “Sakpatenti” donated blood for children and teenagers suffering from leukemia
To support farmers, associations and producers, the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia – “Sakpatenti”, together with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), has launched a new project, which involves targeted training and seminars – at the initial stage Tushetian Guda has been selected from protected appellations of origin.
The National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia – “Sakpatenti”, together with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), launched a new project which is aimed to support farmers, associations and producers of Georgian unique products marked with geographical indications and appellations of origin.
It became known to the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia that unlawful use of the protected Georgian geographical indication of cheese “Sulguni” occurred on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. In particular, cheese called “Suluguni” was sold in several trading networks of Germany. Sakpatenti, in coordination with the Embassy of Georgia in the Federal Republic of Germany, took appropriate measures, after which the products labelled as “Sulugini” were removed from the supermarket networks “LEDO” and “ROSSIA”.
In the International Property Rights Index of the American organization “Property Rights Alliance”, Georgia has advanced by 6 positions and moved in the global ranking from the 72nd to the 66th position and in the Central Eastern Europe and Central Asia region – to the 15th position. The Index published by the “Property Rights Alliance”, which is unique in the world and is fully devoted to measuring of intellectual and physical property rights, is based on the data of the study of rankings of 125 countries.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published the rankings of the Global Innovation Index 2023, in which Georgia has advanced by 9 positions as compared with the previous year and ranks 65th among 132 economies.