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World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

WIPO Websites:
  • Main website
  • Arbitration and Mediation Center
  • WIPO Copyright Treaty:
  • Final version
  • Draft (with comments by the WIPO Committees of Experts)
  • Agreed Statements of the Contracting Parties
  • WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty:
  • Final version
  • Draft (with comments by the WIPO Committees of Experts)
  • Agreed Statements of the Contracting Parties
  • Article on the WIPO Treaties

  • International Treaties

    General:
  • Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
  • Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (as revised)
  • Copyright:
  • WIPO Treaties
  • Berne Convention, as revised
  • Rome Convention
  • Universal Copyright Convention, as revised
  • Patents:
  • Patent Cooperation Treaty, as revised
  • European Patent Office
  • Trademarks:
  • The Madrid System of International Registration of Marks (with full text of Madrid Agreement)

  • European Union

    Commission Green Paper on Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society:
  • summary
  • Full text of the Green Paper (in WinWord format)
  • Institutions:
  • Directorate General Internal Market (IP Site)
  • European Commission Legal Advisory Board
  • European Trademark Office
  • Legal Material:
  • Databases Directive
  • Term of Copyright Protection Directive
  • Directive on Copyright in Satellite Broadcasting and Cable Retransmission
  • Directive on Rental Right and Lending Right and on Certain Rights related to Copyright
  • Software Directive
  • Television without Frontiers Directive

  • National Resources

    Australia:
  • Australian Industrial Property Organisation
  • Copyright Act
  • Trademarks Act
  • Patents Act
  • Designs Act
  • Austria:
  • Patent Office
  • Canada:
  • Canadian Intellectual Property Office
  • Trademarks Act
  • Copyright Act
  • Industrial Design Act
  • Integrated Circuit Topography Act
  • China:
  • Patent Office
  • Trademark Act
  • Copyright Act
  • Patent Act
  • Croatia:
  • Intellectual Property Office
  • Denmark:
  • Patent Office
  • Finland:
  • Patent Office
  • France:
  • Institute for Industrial Property
  • Copyright Act
  • Germany:
  • Patent and Trademark Office
  • Patent Act
  • Trademark Act
  • Copyright Act
  • Registered Designs Act
  • Greece:
  • Industrial Property Organisation
  • Hungary:
  • Industrial Property Office
  • Patent Act
  • Trademarks Act
  • Industrial Designs Act
  • Utility Models Act
  • Semiconductors' Topography Act
  • Italy:
  • Patent and Trademark Office
  • Japan:
  • Patent Office
  • Patent Act
  • Utility Model Act
  • Design Act
  • Trademark Act
  • Malaysia:
  • Industrial Property Office
  • New Zealand:
  • Patent Office
  • Patents Act 1953
  • Patents Amendment Act 1992
  • Patents Amendment Act 1994
  • Patents Amendment Act 1996
  • Trademarks Act
  • Copyright Act
  • Copyright Amendment Act 1996
  • Copyright Amendment Act 1997
  • Designs Act 1953
  • Designs Amendment Act 1996
  • Portugal:
  • Institute for Industrial Property
  • Romania:
  • Industrial Property Office
  • Russia:
  • Copyright Act
  • Sweden:
  • Patent Office
  • Switzerland:
  • Copyright Act
  • USA:
  • Patent and Trademark Office
  • Patent Server (searchable database)
  • Patent Act
  • Trademark Act of 1946, as amended
  • Copyright Office
  • Copyright Act of 1976, as amended




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