Adoption of EUIPN Common Practices in Georgia: update of trade mark guidelines for examiners, capacity building on registration and examination practices

Despite being under a common framework and same regulations, EU IP offices and those abroad do not always apply the same practices during the registration life cycle of a trade mark. Achieving approximation of practices between IP offices has become a top priority for IP User Associations, within the EU and beyond European borders. Implementing these Common Practices from the EUIPN increases legal certainty, consistency and predictability in the decision-making process and helps to achieve effective and efficient access to the protection offered by the trade mark registration systems. 

Based on the amended trade mark law in Georgia, this activity will present to Sakpatenti the latest developments on European Common Practices and facilitate the adoption and inclusion in their practice and examination guidelines previously developped and already aligned with those of the EUIPN.