Sakpatenti and the Mediators Association of Georgia start cooperation on popularization of the intellectual property field and mediation. To this end, today, Mr. Mindia Davitadze, Chairman of the National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia - Sakpatenti, and Mr. Irakli Qandashvili, Chairman of the Mediators Association of Georgia, signed the Memorandum of Understanding.
On March 15-18, 2021, with the involvement of international partners, a seminar is being held to raise awareness on collective management organizations of economic rights of authors in Georgia. Workshop, organized by the Commercial Law Development Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce and with the support of the U.S. Embassy to Georgia, is attended by Sakpatenti staff members, patent attorneys, collective management organizations and other parties interested in this topic.
“Training of Trainers in Intellectual Property Law” is a new project of the Training Centre of the National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia Sakpatenti. It is aimed to train law students, lawyers and teachers and give them the qualification of intellectual property law trainers.
Sakpatenti Chairman Mr. Mindia Davitadze handed over the certificates of intellectual property trainers to the students of the Master’s Degree of the Law Faculty of Tbilisi State University (TSU). The students participated in the special training program “Training of Trainers in Intellectual Property Law”.
Mr. Mindia Davitadze, Chairman of Sakpatenti,
met with Mr. Daren Tang, newly elected Director General of the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Mr. Mindia Davitadze, Chairman of
Sakpatenti, gave an interview to “Interpressnews” on the outcomes of the
meeting held at the WIPO headquarters in Geneva, the prospects of future
cooperation with WIPO and the steps taken by Sakpatenti on the way of its
formation as the regional hub of intellectual property policy, information and
cooperation.
During the official visit to the Swiss
Confederation, Sakpatenti Chairman met with Director General of the Swiss
Federal Institute of Intellectual Property. At the introductory meeting held in
Bern the parties discussed the issues of implementation of the “Agreement
on the Mutual Recognition and Protection of Geographical Indications,
Appellations of Origin and Indications of Source between Georgia and the Swiss
Confederation”.
Meeting between Mr. Mindia Davitadze, Chairman of Sakpatenti, and Mr. Daren
Tang, newly elected Director General of the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO), took place at the WIPO headquarters in Geneva. In 2021 Sakpatenti
representative will lead the Central European and Baltic States (CEBS) Regional
Group and Sakpatenti Chairman in person introduced the Group Coordinator to Mr.
Daren Tang.
Intensification
of the role of Sakpateni Chamber of Appeals, hence, formation of a robust
intellectual property system, is one of the components of the European
Union-Georgia Intellectual Property Project (EUGIPP). Within the EUGIPP, the
European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) will assist Sakpatenti in
elaboration of the consecutiveness of the Chamber decisions. In order to
discuss the cooperation format, Mr. Mindia Davitadze, Sakpatent Chairman, met
with Mr. Theophile Margellos, President of the EUIPO Boards of Appeal.
Mr. Mindia Davitadze, Chairman of the National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia, within the scope of activities of the Sector Economy and Economic Policy Committee of the Parliament of Georgia introduced the priority directions of the Centre to the Chair of the Committee Mr. David Songhulashvili.
In order to improve the system of effective protection and control of geographical indications in Georgia, the National Intellectual Property Centre is working together with the European partners, including on capacity building of the staff members of the entity. For this purpose, within the EU funded Twinning Project, working meeting took place between the examiners of the entity and their European, namely, Italian and French counterparts.