On July 25-26, CLDP partnered with the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia (“Sakpatenti”) to host the 6th Annual International Conference “Georgia Against Counterfeiting and Piracy” (“Conference") in Batumi, Georgia. CLDP and Sakpatenti brought together intellectual property government officials from Armenia, Moldova, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan; experts from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), World Customs Organization (WCO), European Union Intellectual Property Organization (EUIPO), and Europol; and private sector representatives from the textile and pharmaceutical industries for the two-day Conference. Experts addressed current trends and challenges in the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights (“IPR”), private sector representatives explored the impact of counterfeit and pirated goods across the region, and government officials shared best practices and common challenges faced by their respective countries. The roughly 150 attendees thus came away from the Conference with a deeper understanding of the challenges, solutions, and best practices in cross-sector and cross-border IPR issues across the region.