Intellectual Property Lawyers for Business in Georgia
A company's intellectual property should be identified, owned by the intended entity, protected in the relevant markets and licensed on terms that support its commercial model.
What our intellectual property work covers
We advise businesses on Georgian trademarks, brand clearance, copyright and software ownership, employee and contractor assignments, licensing, coexistence, confidentiality, portfolio diligence and enforcement strategy, with filing work coordinated through the applicable official procedure.
Legal and commercial context
Trademark protection is territorial and class-specific. Under Georgian trademark law, protection principally arises through registration with Sakpatenti or applicable international arrangements, while well-known marks have separate treatment. A company-name registration or domain does not by itself provide the same trademark position.
Technology companies also need a complete chain of title. Source code, design, databases, content and inventions may involve founders, employees, contractors, open-source components and earlier employers. The operating company should not promise broad rights to customers until those inputs are documented.
Scoping the decision, evidence and completion record
At the start of this instruction, counsel separates the immediate commercial decision from longer-term remediation. For intellectual property, the initial workstreams usually connect portfolio audit, trademark strategy and ownership. They are sequenced around the first agreed step—inventory the IP, intended markets, owners, contributors and commercial use.—so management knows which conclusion is needed now, which issue is a dependency and which improvement can follow after the transaction or operating decision.
The evidence file should remain intelligible to a director, investor, bank, auditor or regulator who was not present during the original discussions. It therefore links brand and product list, official trademark search results, company, domain and social-name evidence and founder/employee/contractor agreements to the factual assumptions and applicable public sources. Counsel tests that record for risks such as company name mistaken for trademark protection, wrong entity owns the application and classes do not match commercial expansion and records unresolved points rather than silently treating them as confirmed facts.
Completion is defined by usable output, not the delivery of a generic memorandum. Depending on scope, the closing record will include IP ownership and risk report, trademark filing plan and assignment and licence suite and an implementation list showing approvals, signatories, filings, notices, owners and dates. Any conclusion that depends on tax, accounting, technical evidence or foreign law is identified with the responsible specialist and the date on which that dependency must be resolved.
Workstreams designed around the business decision
Portfolio audit
Identify brands, code, content, designs, confidential know-how, domains and contractual rights.
Trademark strategy
Coordinate clearance, owner and class decisions, filing, examination responses, renewals and watch priorities.
Ownership
Prepare founder, employee and contractor assignments and address pre-existing or third-party materials.
Licensing
Define territory, field, exclusivity, sublicensing, quality control, royalties, audit and termination consequences.
Transaction diligence
Review registrations, chain of title, licences, disputes and encumbrances for investment or acquisition.
Enforcement
Preserve evidence, assess confusion or copying, send proportionate notices and choose administrative, civil or negotiated routes.
How the legal work is organised
- 1
Inventory the IP, intended markets, owners, contributors and commercial use.
- 2
Search official records and review chain-of-title and licence evidence.
- 3
Prioritise filings, assignments, contract changes and confidentiality controls.
- 4
Implement registrations and agreements with a clear responsibility calendar.
- 5
Monitor material conflicts and preserve use, creation and enforcement evidence.
Documents and evidence to prepare
The exact request is tailored to the matter. A first review commonly starts with:
- brand and product list
- official trademark search results
- company, domain and social-name evidence
- founder/employee/contractor agreements
- source repository and open-source inventory
- licences, distribution and franchise terms
- design and content creation records
- infringement screenshots, samples and chronology
Risks we test
Legal review focuses on consequences that can affect authority, value, timing, compliance or enforceability:
- company name mistaken for trademark protection
- wrong entity owns the application
- classes do not match commercial expansion
- contractor created assets without assignment
- open-source obligations are unknown
- licence termination does not address inventory, data or transition
Typical deliverables
The agreed deliverable should help the company act, obtain approval and retain a reliable record of the decision.
Official public sources
These links are starting points for the current public legal framework. The operative consolidated text, amendments and facts should be checked when advice is given.