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."

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)

• Intellectual Property Agency of Armenia (AIPA)

• IP Australia (IPA)

• 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)

• German Patent Office (DPMA)

• Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Patent Office (GCCPO)

• Intellectual Property Office of Ireland (IPOI)

• 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 (INPI)

• National Industrial Property Institute, Portugal (INPI)

• National Institute of Intellectual Property, Kazakhstan (NIIP)

• 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)

• Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL)

• Polish Patent Office (PPO)

• 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)

• (UNOIPI), formerly Ukrainian Institute of Intellectual Property

• United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO)

• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

List of past patent offices or the like

• 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

• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

References

External links

• on the WIPO web site