PATENT OFFICE

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A 'patent office' is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents.

Contents

List of patent offices

List of past patent offices or the like

See also

External links

List of patent offices

For a list of patent offices and their websites, please see this list maintained by WIPO.
''The entries shown in italics are regional or international patent offices.''

★ ''African Regional Intellectual Property Organization'' (ARIPO)

★ IP Australia (IPA)

★ Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)

★ ''Eurasian Patent Organization'' (EAPO)

★ ''European Patent Office'' (EPO)

★ German Patent Office (DPMA)

★ Indian Patent Office

★ Japan Patent Office (JPO)

★ ''Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle'' (OAPI)

★ UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO)

★ United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

★ ''World Intellectual Property Organization'' (WIPO)

★ State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO)

List of past patent offices or the like

★ Confederate Patent Office

★ ''Goskomizobretenie'' (Soviet patent office)

★ International Patent Institute

See also

★ Patent

★ List of patent legal concepts

★ List of people associated with patent law

★ Intellectual property organisation

External links

★ ''Directory of Intellectual Property Offices'' (incl. Patent Offices) on the WIPO web site