• Trademark
  • Patent
  • Design
Regions
Georgia

 

General information

Valid Nice Classification – NCL 12-2023.

Registration period – about 8-12 months from the application filing date.

Confirmation document – Certificate.

Procedure features – from the application filing date it is necessary to regularly monitor trademark applications to check whether any of them conflict with your trademark.

 

Procedure

Step Term Official Notification
Application Filing 1 day Notification with entry number, applicant name, filing date and time
Formal Examination within 1 month Official notification on priority date
Substantive Examination within 6 months Official notification on grant/refusal
Publication within 3 months Publicated trade mark
Grant 1 month after grant fees payment Certificate

 

Requirements

1. Applicant information – full name / title and registered office / registration address.
2. Trademark images and/or verbal elements, etc.
3. Priority document must be submitted within 3 months from the application filing date.
4. Translation of the priority document into Georgian (we prepare by ourselves) must be submitted within 3 months from the application filing date.
5. Power of Attorney (scanned copy without legalization).

Georgia

 

General information

Invention

Registration period – about 2-5 years from the application filing date.

Confirmation document – Certificate.

Term of validity – 20 years from the application filing date. Patent for invention can be extended for additional 5 years if the patent object is a medicinal product, pesticide or agrochemical, and when the product use requires permission according to the procedure established by law.

What can be protected: product (device, substance, microorganism strain, plant and animal cell culture, etc.); method (process of affecting material object with material resources), including use of the product or method for the specific purpose (for example, for treating diseases).

Utility model

Registration period – about 12-24 months from the application filing date.

Confirmation document – Certificate.

Term of validity – 8 years from the application filing date.

What can be protected: device.

 

Procedure for Invention

Step Term Official Notification Deadline
Application Filing 1 day Notification with registration number, applicant name, date and time of filing Direct filing with claiming priority – 12 months from priority date
Formal Examination 4-6 months from application filing date Formal examination request / Notification on formal examination completion Response to formal examination request – 2 months from date of reception
Substantive Examination 36 months after filing request for substantive examination Notification on patentability verification results / Substantive examination request / Decision on grant/refusal Filing request for substantive examination – within 3 years from application filing date

Response to substantive examination request – 2 months from date of reception

Response to notification on patentability verification results – 6 months from date of reception
Publication and Grant within 3 months from grant fees payment Certificate Payment of grant and publication fees – 3 months from reception of grant decision
Maintenance annually Invitation to pay annuity fees Annuity fees are paid from the third year, counting from application filing date

Annuity fees for each subsequent year are paid during previous year

 

Procedure for Utility model

Step Term Official Notification Deadline
Application Filing 1 day Notification with registration number, applicant name, date and time of filing Direct filing with claiming priority – 12 months from priority date
Formal Examination 3-4 months from filing fees payment Formal examination request / Notification on formal examination completion Response to formal examination request – 2 months from date of reception
Publication and Grant about 2 months from grant fees payment Certificate Payment of grant and publication fees – 2 months from reception of grant decision
Maintenance annually Invitation to pay annuity fees Annuity fees payment – during last 4 months of current year of validity

 

Requirements

1. Applicant information – full name / title and registered office.
2. Inventor information – full name and registration address.
3. Number of International publication (for PCT procedure) or application materials: claims, description, abstract, drawings (for non-PCT procedure; international application was not published).
4. Translation of the application into Russian (we prepare by ourselves) must be submitted within 2 months from the date of filing.
5. Power of Attorney (no legalization or notarization required) must be submitted within 2 months from the date of filing.
6. Certified copy of the priority application (if priority is claimed) must be submitted within 16 months from the date of filing.

 

 

Georgia

 

General information

Registration period

Confirmation document – Certificate of industrial design.

Validity period – 5 years from the date of the application filing, with a possible extension for 1-5 five-year terms.

What can be protected as an industrial design: the appearance of the whole or part of a product resulting from the properties of the product itself, including lines, contours, colors, shape, texture and/or material or finish of the product.

Official language – application materials are submitted in Georgian and all prosecution is conducted in Georgian.

Bonus – an opportunity to accelerate the registration of an industrial design.

 

Procedure

Stage Duration Results of the stage Necessary actions
Application filing 1 day Notification of the application filing date and application number To pay filing fees and formal examination fees – at the filing date or within 2 weeks from the filing date

 

To submit application translation – within 2 months from the filing date
Priority establishment (optional) within 1-4 months from the filing date Notification of establishment of priority To claim priority – at the filing date or within 1 month from the filing date

 

To submit certified copy of the priority application and its translation – at the filing date or at the priority claiming date or within 3 months from the priority claiming date
Formal examination within 1 month from the filing date Written opinion on the application with comments on finalizing the application materials, making clarifications, eliminating inconsistencies, etc.

 

Decision on successful completion of the Formal examination

 To submit response to Written opinion – within 1 month from the reception date

 

To pay the substantive examination fees – within 2 months from the Formal examination completion
Substantive examination within 3 months from the Formal examination completion Written opinion of the Substantive examination

 

Decision on state registration of an industrial design

 To submit response to Written opinion of the Substantive examination

 

To pay publication fees – within 1 month from the decision date
Publication within 1 months from the decision date Publication of information about the application and appearance of the industrial design in the Official bulletin

 

Notification to pay registration fees and annuity fees for the first 5 years

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State registration within 1 months from the decision date Registration in the State Register of Certificates To pay registration fees and annuity fees for the first 5 years – within 1 month from the Notification to pay registration fees and annuity fees
Certificate issuance within 1 months from the registration date Certificate reception —
Annuity within 5th year Notification of annuity fee reception To pay annuity fees – within 1 month from the date of submission of the request for extension of the validity period

 

Requirements

1. Information about the applicant – full name / address of permanent residence, name of the legal entity / address of registration of the legal entity.

2. Information about the author(s) – full name, address of permanent residence.

3. A set of photographs showing the product, a mock-up or a drawing that gives a complete detailed understanding of the appearance of the product, a drawing of the general appearance of the product, an ergonomic diagram, a assembly map, etc.

4. Power of attorney for a representative in intellectual property (does not require legalization or notarization).

5. Priority claim with reference to the date of the previous application filing, the number of the previous application and the name of the country or institution where it was filed, as well as a certified copy of the previous application issued by the institution that received it (if priority is claimed).

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