With the support of the National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia – “Sakpatenti”, the traditional annual festival “Chacha” was held in Telavi.
Farmers, peasants, small cellars and chacha producing companies of all the eight municipalities of Kakheti Region participated in the event. The festival is aimed to encourage and support them by revealing the best samples of chacha produced by them, as well as to popularize the spirit made from grape chacha (peels and pits of grapes) as a protected geographical indication and its wholesome properties.
Within the campaign “Donate Blood, Save Life”, staff members of the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia – “Sakpatenti” donated blood for children and teenagers suffering from leukemia
To support farmers, associations and producers, the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia – “Sakpatenti”, together with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), has launched a new project, which involves targeted training and seminars – at the initial stage Tushetian Guda has been selected from protected appellations of origin.
The National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia – “Sakpatenti”, together with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), launched a new project which is aimed to support farmers, associations and producers of Georgian unique products marked with geographical indications and appellations of origin.
It became known to the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia that unlawful use of the protected Georgian geographical indication of cheese “Sulguni” occurred on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. In particular, cheese called “Suluguni” was sold in several trading networks of Germany. Sakpatenti, in coordination with the Embassy of Georgia in the Federal Republic of Germany, took appropriate measures, after which the products labelled as “Sulugini” were removed from the supermarket networks “LEDO” and “ROSSIA”.
In the International Property Rights Index of the American organization “Property Rights Alliance”, Georgia has advanced by 6 positions and moved in the global ranking from the 72nd to the 66th position and in the Central Eastern Europe and Central Asia region – to the 15th position. The Index published by the “Property Rights Alliance”, which is unique in the world and is fully devoted to measuring of intellectual and physical property rights, is based on the data of the study of rankings of 125 countries.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published the rankings of the Global Innovation Index 2023, in which Georgia has advanced by 9 positions as compared with the previous year and ranks 65th among 132 economies.
From September 13, 2023, on paper applications for intellectual property subject-matters will be received and respective consultations will be provided at:
On July 29-30, the Workshop on Adjudication of Civil Intellectual Property Infringement Cases was opened in Batumi, organized by the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia – “Sakpatenti” and the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The joint event of CLDP and Sakpatenti was opened by Mr. Skip Mark, Senior Counsel of CLDP. Mr. Soso Giorgadze, Chairman of Sakpatenti, and Mr. Vasil Mshvenieradze, Chairman of the Independent board of the High School of Justice, Chairman of Tbilisi City Court, delivered opening remarks to the participants of the workshop.