Sakpatenti is at the forefront of non-EU countries who have already adopted several of the European Intellectual Property Network (EUIPN) practices. This demonstrates the level of commitment and ongoing efforts to approximate Georgian legislation to European IP standards.

The EUGIPP will support Sakpatenti to assess other EUIPN practices and the extent to which these could be adopted. The project will also provide translation services to publish and promote the Common Practices in Georgian for IP stakeholders.

Based on the success of the IP Case Law Conference (IPCLC) 2020, the activity will allow more IP practitioners from Georgia to participate in the IPCLC 2022 and benefit from the opportunity to meet again with high qualified experts in the IP field from all around the globe.

Following on from the successful organisation of the Enforcement Forum in June in 2021, the present activity aims to mobilise EU expertise to exchange best practices with Georgian enforcement authorities.

After completing the trade mark guidelines, a seminar on their application will be organised, together with a stakeholder event, in order to consolidate and promote the use of the guidelines among users.

The specialised course will concentrate on training Sakpatenti officials responsible for the application of the guidelines, while the stakeholder event will target IP attorneys, private businesses and other users.

On 27 December 2021, the Government of Jamaica sent WIPO its instrument of accession to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement, making it the 110th member of the Madrid System. The Madrid Protocol will enter into force for Jamaica on 27 March 2022.

From that date, local brand owners in Jamaica will be able to use the Madrid System to protect their trade marks internationally by filing a single international application and paying a single set of fees.

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In an effort to keep strengthening the intellectual property rights (IPR) environment in the Caribbean that fosters innovation, trade and investment in the region, the CarIPI project has just released a new practical guide on the Hague System in Belize.

This booklet, ‘Bringing Belizean Design to the World’ aims to help designers and entrepreneurs in Belize get a clear understanding of the Hague System and its exponential benefits.

As of 13 December 2021, the Internal Trade Development Authority of Egypt (ITDA) has made its trade mark data available to the TMview search tool.

With ITDA on board of TMview, the tool now contains data from 76 participating offices.

With the addition of more than 131.500 trade marks from ITDA, TMview now provides information and access to more than 102,7 million trade marks in total.

As of 13 December 2021, the Trinidad and Tobago Intellectual Property Office (TTIPO) will use and accept the list of terms from the harmonised database of goods and services (HDB) in TMclass.

Following TTIPO’s decision to use the HDB, there are now 21 IP offices outside the EU that use and accept terms from this database.

The inclusion of TTIPO in TMclass brings the total number of participating national and regional IP offices, including ARIPO, OAPI, WIPO and the EUIPO, to 89.

On 10 November 2021, the Government of Jamaica formally deposited its instrument of accession to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs.

With its entry into force on February 10 2022, Jamaica will become the 76th member of the Hague System, the unified system for industrial design registration administered by WIPO.