On 15 and 16 October, the EUIPO Boards of Appeal organised the biennial IP Case-Law Conference 2020. Selected judges, IP attorneys and more than 20 Sakpatenti officials attended this online event. As it was in English, the EU-Georgia Intellectual Property Project (EUGIPP) provided interpretation services so that Georgian representatives could listen to and interact with speakers in their own language.
Specific designs guidelines will be developed for the practical use of both the Sakpatenti staff in charge of the various procedures and users. The purpose of the guidelines is to ensure consistency between the decisions taken by Sakpatenti and to guarantee a coherent practice in file handling.
Specific trade mark guidelines will be developed for the practical use of both the Sakpatenti staff in charge of the various procedures and users. The purpose of the guidelines is to ensure consistency between decisions taken by Sakpatenti and to guarantee a coherent practice in file handling.
The EU Georgia Intellectual Property Project will support Sakpatenti in obtaining the ISO 9001 certification, building on previous efforts already initiated to obtain the certification. The purpose of this activity is to accompany Sakpatenti throughout the process of preparing the gap analysis, identifying and adopting quality management system procedures, drafting relevant documentation, and the internal audit and certification. The support will continue through to a surveillance audit and implementing possible corrective plans.
This activity consists of a comparative analysis of the EU and Georgian legislations. The analysis will cover best practices on IP rights enforcement and will assess the degree of convergence of the two legislations. The ultimate goal is to propose legal amendments and facilitate the convergence of the Georgian enforcement rules with European norms.
The project will support Sakpatenti to compile a list of decisions on trade marks and designs taken by the Court of Justice of the European Union, the General Court, and the EUIPO Boards of Appeal (BoA).
The decisions will be chosen on the basis of their normative and interpretative relevance with respect to the relating intellectual property legal systems. They will be translated in Georgian and put at disposal of enforcement authorities and officials from Sakpatenti, who are the main people in charge of interpreting and applying IP jurisprudence.
The purpose of this activity is to do a comparative study of the Georgian and EU copyright systems. The study will assess the level of approximation between the European and Georgian law and analyse the divergences between the two systems.
The expected result of the project is to understand the respective differences between the two law structures with the ultimate goal of proposing legal amendments to facilitate the approximation of the Georgian law on copyright to the European standards.
This activity aims to support the Sakpatenti IP Training Centre of Georgia (SIPTCG) to define and take specific actions to build a conducive IP learning environment in the following areas of cooperation:
This activity intends to identify the existing gaps between Georgian legislation on trade marks and designs and the EU legislation. It will make recommendations for closing the gaps and propose legal amendments to converge with European Union IP standards.
ARISE+ IPR joined the IP Fair 2020 on 15-16 September at Centara Grand at Central Plaza Ladprao in Bangkok, Thailand. The two-day event was organised by the Department of Intellectual Property of Thailand (DIP) to showcase recent Thai innovation, celebrate award-winning IP-intensive products, and give businesses and dialogue partners from local and international institutions opportunities to create meaningful conversations.