Introduction to Patent Law



by



Michael Wogan, Ph.D., J.D.




Appendix D


World Intellectual Property Web Sites




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An international gateway site, maintained by UNESCO, is at:

http:://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=7277&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1048272936

The site has links to intellectual property rights in countries throughout the world, as well as links dealing with e-commerce, online governance, and virtual libraries.

A list of patent offices worldwide is maintained by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) at:

http://www.wipo.int/directory/en/urls.jsp

Regional or international patent offices include the following:

Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)

http://www.opic.gc.ca/

A searchable database of Canadian patents is at:

http://patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html

Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO)

http://eapo.org/

European Patent Office (EPO)

http://www.european-patent-office.org/

German Patent Office (DPMA)

http://www.deutsches-patentamt.de/index.htm

Indian Patent Office

http://www.patentoffice.nic.in/

IP Australia

http://ipaustralia.gov.au/

Japan Patent Office (JPO)

http://www.jpo.go.jp/

Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI)

http://www.oapi.wipo.net/en/index.html

State Intellectual Property Office of China

http://www.sipo.gov.cn/sipo_English/default.htm

United Kingdom Patent Office

http://www.patents.gov.uk/

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

http://www.wipo.int/

            The European Community Judicial Network maintains a web site with links to sites describing the court systems, including civil and criminal law and Alternate Dispute Resolution, in 27 EU countries, as well as international law and legal systems specific to the EU.

http://ec.europa.eu/civiljustice/index_en.htm

            The Scientific Commons web site:

http://www.scientificcommons.org/

was developed by the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland and is maintained in the U.K. at the Institute for Media and Communications Management. The project indexes 16 million publications from more than 850 repositories worldwide. A search for “Patent” produces dozens of documents focused on policy questions.

The web site maintained by the Workshop of the World brings together some of the compelling inventions which came out of the West Midlands region of England during the 19th Century. The area was a center of innovation and manufacturing from the Middle Ages through the period of the Industrial Revolution:

http://www.workshopoftheworld.co.uk