List of patent related topics

This is a list of topics related to patents. See list of patent legal concepts for a list of articles on various legal aspects of patents, including special types of patents and patent applications.

Organizations and patent offices

For more details on this topic, see Intellectual property organization (including international intergovernmental, non-governmental, non-profit, lobbying organizations, and think thanks, as well as professional associations).

For a list of patent offices, see Patent office.

Treaties, conventions and other legal texts and frameworks

• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs Agreement)
• American Inventors Protection Act (AIPA)
• Budapest Treaty
• EU Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions (proposed, then rejected)
• EU Directive on the Patentability of Biotechnological Inventions
• EU patent (proposed)
• European Convention on the International Classification of Patents for Invention (1954)
• European Convention relating to the Formalities required for Patent Applications (1953)
• European Patent Convention (EPC)
• European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) (proposed)
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
• London Agreement (2000)
• NATO Agreement for the mutual safeguarding of secrecy of inventions relating to defence (1960)
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• Patent Act of 1922
• U.S. Patent Reform Acts of 2005, 2007 and 2009
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
• Patent Law Treaty (PLT)
• Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) (proposed)
• Statute of Monopolies 1623
• Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification (1971)
• Strasbourg Convention (1963)

Patent law by countries and regions

See also: Category:Patent law by country

• Australian patent law
• Canadian patent law
• European patent law
• Japanese patent law
• South African patent system
• United States patent law

Other

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