ARTICLE 7. Confidentiality of an Invention
1. Sakpatenti grants patent in respect of an invention that is rendered confidential by competent authority for purposes of state defense only after such authority decides on declassification of an invention.
2. An invention can be kept secret for no longer than 2 years, which can be extended multiple times during validity of patent by term(s) determined by this paragraph.
3. repealed;
4. In case of rendering an invention secret, appropriate compensation is paid to the inventor in the amount and through the procedures determined by normative act of a competent authority.
Article 2. Legislation of Georgia on State Secrets
1. This Law and other normative acts shall constitute the legislation of Georgia on state secrets.
2. The legislation of Georgia on state secrets shall not apply to the relations with respect to protection of commercial, bank, financial, scientific-technical and invention-related secrets or other types of secret information unless such information simultaneously constitutes a state secret.