The Criminal Framework for Trademark Counterfeiting
The unlawful use of another's trademark or service mark, appellation of origin or geographical indication is punished in Georgia by Article 196 of the Criminal Code, and the norm covers the whole cycle of marking goods — from the making of the mark to the production of marked goods and their introduction into circulation. Boundaries should be noted as well: the registration and cancellation of marks follow the regime of the national intellectual-property centre, and the automatic statutory-damages regime known from the United States system does not exist in Georgian criminal law — criminal liability here is built on quantitative thresholds.