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Map of current ARIPO members in blue, nations with observer status in green. [needs update]The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), formerly African Regional Industrial Property Organization, is an intergovernmental organization for cooperation among African states in patent and other intellectual property matters.
This is a list of parties to international patent treaties which are open to all states. Paris Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, Paris, 1883-03-20, came into force 1884-07-07 [1] PCT Patent Cooperation Treaty, Washington, 1970-06-19, came into force 1978-01-24 [2] Budapest
Patent Cooperation Treaty; Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material; International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture; International Plant Protection Convention; Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives; Convention on the Political Rights of Women; Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997
The laws and practices of many countries stipulate that certain types of inventions should be denied patent protection. Together with criteria such as novelty , inventive step or nonobviousness , utility (or industrial applicability ), which differ from country to country, the question of whether a particular subject matter is patentable is one ...
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states. A patent application filed under the PCT is called an international application, or PCT application.
Nordic Patent Institute (NPI) XN: N/A Northern Mariana Islands: MP: MP Norway: NO: NO European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) EM: N/A Oman: OM: OM Pakistan: PK: PK Palau: PW: PW Panama: PA: PA Papua New Guinea: PG: PG Paraguay: PY: PY Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) GC: N/A Peru: PE: PE ...
There is a trend towards global harmonization of patent laws, with the World Trade Organization (WTO) being particularly active in this area. [74] [non-primary source needed] The TRIPS Agreement has been largely successful in providing a forum for nations to agree on an aligned set of patent laws. Conformity with the TRIPS agreement is a ...
World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI) is an annual statistical report published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). [1] The publication provides an overview of the activity in the areas of patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs, microorganisms, plant variety protection, geographical indications and the creative economy.