A patent office is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents. In other words, "patent offices are government bodies that may grant a patent or reject the patent application based on whether the application fulfils the requirements for patentability."
[European Commission]
''Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry, Preliminary Report (DG Competition Staff Working Paper)
28 November 2008, page 89 (pdf, 1.95 MB).
List of patent offices
For a list of patent offices and their websites, see the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) maintained list
here
''The entries shown in italics are regional or international patent offices.''
*''African Regional Intellectual Property Organization'' (ARIPO)
*IP Australia (IPA)
*Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office, Barbados Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office (CAIPO)
*Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
*Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA)
*Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office (EIPO)
*''European Patent Office (EPO)''
*''Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO)''
*Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, German Patent Office (DPMA)
*''Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Patent Office'' (GCCPO)
*Indian Patent Office (IPO)
*Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS)
*Israeli Patent Office
*Italian Patent and Trademark Office
*Japan Patent Office (JPO)
*Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO)
*Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI)
*National Industrial Property Institute (France), National Industrial Property Institute, France (INPI)
*National Industrial Property Institute (Portugal), National Industrial Property Institute, Portugal (INPI)
*Netherlands Patent Office
*''Nordic Patent Institute'' (NPI)
*Norwegian Industrial Property Office
*''"Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle"'' (OAPI)
*Patent Office of the Republic of Latvia
*Intellectual Property Organisation of Pakistan (IPO)
*Polish Patent Office (PPO)
*Rospatent, Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, (Rospatent), Russian Federation
*Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO)
*Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV)
*Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IGE)
*Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) Republic of China
*Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT)
*Ukrainian Patent Office (officially 'State Enterprise "Ukrainian Institute of Industrial Property"', or 'SE "UIPV"')
*UK Intellectual Property Office, United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO)
*United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
*''World Intellectual Property Organization'' (WIPO)
List of past patent offices or the like
* Confederate Patent Office, Confederate States Patent Office
* ''"Goskomizobretenie"'' (Soviet Union patent office)
* International Patent Institute
See also
* Glossary of patent law terms
* Intellectual property organisation
* List of people associated with patent law
* Patent court
References
External links
''Directory of Intellectual Property Offices'' (incl. Patent Offices)on the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO web site
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