Today, on October 13, 2018, at the third pavilion of Expo Georgia, National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia Sakpatenti, together with other private and public organizations, participates in the exhibition “Start-In-Georgia” – “Everything for My Start-up”, organized by Start Business Solutions.
Sakpatenti delegation held meetings with the Director of WIPO Academy, during which the significance of the training programs, offered at Sakpatenti Intellectual Property Training Centre, including the advanced “Training Course on Geographical Indications”, was stressed. The latter was held in Georgia for the second time and again course received high evaluation from the participants and representatives of the WIPO Academy.
On September 19, 2018, registration will start for the WIPO Academy Distance Learning General Course (DL101GE) and interested persons will have an opportunity to pass it already in the Georgian language (see the link: http://www.sakpatenti.gov.ge/ka/page/181/).
On September 17-19, Mr. Sherif Saadallah, Executive Director of WIPO Intellectual Property Academy paid a second official visit to Sakpatenti.
Within the WIPO professional development program, Mr. Saadallah will open the international English-language “Training Course on Geographical Indications”, organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Academy and the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia Sakpatenti Training Centre, which will be held in Georgia for already the second time.
As of today, the electronic office management system was fully launched at Sakpatenti. The system allows paperless exchange of internal documentations. The system simplifies and renders more effectively the process of tracking various tasks and enables permanent monitoring
As a result of the activities conducted by the Food and Veterinary Agency of the Republic of Latvia, goods infringing rights on the geographical indication “Churchkhela” were removed from the channels of commerce.