The primary draft of specifications of Rachan Ham and Gurjaani Peach is ready and soon two new geographical indications will be added to the State Register. Within the EU Twinning Project, specifications of these two products were drafted by the experts engaged in the project, in cooperation with the local producers.
The introductory remote meeting took place between Mr. Mindia Davitadze, Sakpatenti Chairman, and Mr. Christian Archambeau, Executive Director of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The EUIPO Executive Director congratulated Mr. Mindia Davitadze on his appointment to the position of the Chairman. The parties discussed the cooperation of Sakpatenti and its strategic partner EUIPO and the progress of the joint projects.
The structural units of the National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia Sakpatenti continue teleworking, except the structural units which provide services to citizens and carry out proceedings. Today, on June 8, 2020, the Service Centre resumed receiving citizens and applicants will be able to file applications directly at the office as well.
Sakpatenti issued a certificate of registration for appellation of origin “Akhoebi”. It is a special wine of dark red colour, with excellent, full, extravagant, velvet, harmonious taste and aroma. The application for registration was filed with the National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia Sakpatenti by N(N)IP Kardenakhi Wine.
More than 50 members of the International Trademark Association (INTA) attended today the Virtual Round Table, organized by Sakpatenti and INTA, a dialogue on the intellectual property policy, which was devoted to discussion of the challenges and problems related with counterfeiting during the Coronavirus pandemic period and ways of their overcoming.
The Virtual Round Table, organized by the International Trademark Association (INTA) and Sakpatenti, will take place on May 28, 2020 at 16:00. The dialogue will be devoted to the results of the measures taken against counterfeiting in Georgia during the Coronavirus (Covid19) period and future prospects.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) begins a series of online Roving Seminars, which aims to offer detailed information on WIPO services and initiatives to all stakeholders under the conditions of different measures of confinement and restrictions related to the COVID 19 pandemic. In the course of the webinar, WIPO experts will introduce the basic features of their respective services of the organization as well as the measures WIPO has adopted to address the COVID 19 pandemic. During 90 minutes participants of the webinar will be given an opportunity of interaction, receiving answers to specific questions and obtaining practical knowledge on the following issues:
As a result of the joint efforts of the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia (Sakpatenti) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), Sakpatenti has today published three Practice Papers on trademarks
“Tsarapi” was added to the register of appellations of origin in Georgia. The National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia Sakpatenti issued the certificate of registration for the new appellation of origin of Georgian wine in the name of N(N)IP Kardenakhi Wine, after the completion of relevant procedures.
Chairman of National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia Mindia Davitadze and World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Francis Gurry met on May 13, 2020 to discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on intellectual property.