On June 25, 2019, pupils from schools of the Pankisi Gorge villages visited the head office of Sakpatenti in Mtskheta. The meeting took place on the initiative of the “Junior Achievement Georgia (JA Georgia)”, which is implementing in Pankisi schools the subproject “Basic Business Concepts in Primary Education” of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) project “Pankisi Community Links”.
To support interested parties to familiarize with the scientific and technological achievements in the intellectual property field, namely, patents, to acquire state of the art preliminary assessment procedures prior to preparing a patent application and to better plan drafting and filing a patent application with the patent office, the National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia Sakpatenti has developed a study course, which is offered free of charge to representatives of universities and scientific-research institutions.
Today, on May 20, 2019, an information meeting took place at the International Black Sea University (IBSU) Research and Innovation Hub, aimed at raising awareness of the University students and representatives of its faculties on the necessity of protection of intellectual property.
Problems existing in the sector of winegrowers and ways of their solution were discussed during the First Conference of Winegrowers, held with the support of the National intellectual Property Centre of Georgia Sakpatenti in Gurjaani Municipality.
On May 15, 2019, a meeting took place between Sakpatenti management and Mr. Peter B.Davidson, General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce, visiting Georgia.
Today, on May 13, 2019, within the framework of the Project on “Establishing Efficient Protection and Control System of Geographical Indications (GIs) in Georgia”, a delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture of Italy visited Georgia. The Project, which is implemented within the EU funded Twinning Project, envisages the development of the current system of geographical indications in Georgia.
Today, on May 7, 2019, a Regional Conference was opened. The conference is organized by the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia Sakpatenti, in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), devoted to the importance of one of the significant intellectual property subject-matters in the modern world – design, as a tool for business success and economic value of goods, as well as promotion of this IP subject-matter, which will facilitate raising public awareness on the importance of design protection and development of this direction.
On April 22-25, 2019, study course “Patent Search” will take place at the IP Training Centre functioning at Sakpatenti. It covers an overview of the patent system and introduction to the techniques of patent information search. The course is intended for representatives of universities and scientific-research institutions.