Two-Day Seminar is Held in Borjomi with Participation of European and Georgian Judges

To share practice of European courts in the field of intellectual property protection, a two-day seminar is held in Borjomi with the participation of European and Georgian judges. Mr. Soso Giorgadze, Chairman of the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia – Sakpatenti, is attending the event in Hotel Crown Plaza.

In the seminar, organized by Sakpatenti and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), 11 judges are participating from Georgia.  Reférendaires and judges of the General Court of the European Union (GCEU), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the Commercial Court of Liege (Belgium) and members of the EUIPO’s Boards of Appeal (BOA) will share best practices with the Georgian judges.  

The agenda of the seminar includes presentations on intellectual property related cases in the European Union,  discussions around court decisions and consideration of high-profile cases  in this direction. Judges from the Supreme Court of Georgia, Tbilisi Court of Appeals and Tbilisi City Court, as well as Kutaisi City Court are participating in the discussion. 

On the first day of the event, on November 11, 2022, the presentation of a compilation of court decisions on intellectual property cases took place. The work, which was translated into the Georgian language by the Georgian Bar Association, is compiled on the basis of decisions taken by CJEU, GCEU and EUIPO BOA.

The event is held in the framework of the EU-Georgia Intellectual Property Project (EUGIPP), which is ongoing from January 2020. The project is jointly implemented by EUIPO and Sakpatenti. It is aimed to support the intellectual property system in Georgia, to approximate the legislation and practices of Georgia and the European Union.