Intellectual property organization

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Intellectual property organizations encompass international intergovernmental organizations that involve cooperation in the area of copyrights, trademarks and patents, and non-governmental, non-profit organizations, lobbying organizations, think thanks, as well as professional associations.

Contents 1 General organisations 2 Specialized organisations 2.1 Patent offices 2.2 Patent-related organisations 2.3 Trademark- and design-related organisations 3 Think tanks, institutes, non-profit and professional organizations 3.1 Anti-patent organizations 3.2 Former organisations 4 See also

[edit] General organisations

• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO)
• Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI) or African Intellectual Property Organization

[edit] Specialized organisations

[edit] Patent offices

Main article: Patent office

[edit] Patent-related organisations

• European Patent Organisation (EPO or EPOrg)
• Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO)
• Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC)

[edit] Trademark- and design-related organisations

• Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM)
• Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP)

[edit] Think tanks, institutes, non-profit and professional organizations

• AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law (SCRIPT)
• Alliance for American Innovation (AAIUSA)[1]
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
• Arab Society for Intellectual Property [2]

• Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI)
• Center for Intellectual Property Studies (CIP)
• Center for Patent Policy (CPP)[3]
• Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA)

• European Patent Institute (epi)

• German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR e. V.)

• Institute of Patentees and Inventors
• Intellectual Property Institute (IP Institute)
• Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)
• International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP)
• International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI)
• International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI)
• International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA)
• International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI) [4]
• International Trademark Association (INTA)
• InventorEd (InvEd)[5]

• Japan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA)

• Licensing Executives Society International (LESI or LES Int.)

• Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law

• Patent Office Practioners Association (POPA) [6]
• Professional Inventors Alliance (PIAUSA)[7]
• Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT)

• Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute

• The Intellectual Property Lawyers' Organisation (TIPLO)
• Trade Marks, Patents and Designs Federation (TMPDF)

• UNION of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property (UNION or UEPIP)

[edit] Anti-patent organizations

• Patent Commons
• Pirate Party

[edit] Former organisations

• The United States Patent Association

[edit] See also

• Intellectual property
• List of organizations
• Patent attorney
• Patent examiner