---
title: "Customs IP Enforcement"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/intellectual-property-law-en/customs-ip-enforcement-en"
field: "Intellectual Property Law"
description: "Customs IP enforcement in Georgia: import-export prohibitions and remedies under trademark law. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-06-27"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Customs IP Enforcement

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/intellectual-property-law-en/customs-ip-enforcement-en

## Customs and Intellectual Property — the Foundations

The state border is the most sensitive point for counterfeit goods and goods created in breach of a right in a mark: import, export and warehousing are precisely the acts prohibited by the Georgian Law on Trademarks. These norms do not provide a separate institute of "customs-record filing" or an application for customs surveillance — protection at the border operates through the general regime of the exclusive right in the mark and claims directed to court. The holder's exclusive right to a trademark protected by registration arises from the day the mark is registered, and it is this right that determines who may lawfully dispose of marked goods crossing the border.

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### Is there a customs-record procedure?

Not in these norms; protection runs through the general trademark regime, by court demand.

### What may be claimed?

Cessation, removal of imported or stored goods, destruction, damages, or one-time compensation.

### Against whom may the claim be directed?

Not only the infringer but also a person whose service was used for a commercial-scale infringement.

### When does the right in the mark arise?

From the day of registration.