Registered Georgian appellation of origin “Kindzmarauli”, Georgian wine varieties “Saperavi”, “Rkatsiteli”, and mark “Alaznis Valley”, registered in bad faith on the territory of Mongolia by Mongolian company “’Tavanbogd International” LLC, were invalidated.
Today, on July, 2019, the second meeting of the Steering Committee of the EU funded Twinning Project on “Establishing Efficient Protection and Control System of Geographical Indications (GIs) in Georgia” (GE/16 ENI EC 0318) took place at the Head Office of the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia Sakpatenti, during which the Action Plan for the next 6 months and the conducted activities were presented.
Today, on July 20, 2019, the Workshop on Adjudication of Civil Intellectual Property Infringement Cases is taking place in Batumi with the participation of Georgian judges. The workshop is organized by the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) of the U.S. Department of Commerce and the United States Embassy in Georgia.
On July 18, 2019, the International Conference “Georgia Against Counterfeiting and Piracy” was opened, jointly organized by the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia Sakpatenti and the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), U.S. Department of Commerce.
The international Summer School on Law ended today, on July 5, 2019. 25 graduates of the School, who passed the course on the topic “Intellectual Property Law”, were handed over relevant diplomas of the study course.
The Summer School on Intellectual Property Law is held in Georgia for already the fourth time. The event is organized by the European Law Students Association Georgia (ELSA Georgia), National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia Sakpatenti and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
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.