A patent office is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents.

List of patent offices

For a list of patent offices and their websites, see this list maintained by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

The entries shown in italics are regional or international patent offices.

• African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO)
• IP Australia (IPA)
• Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
• Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office (EIPO)
• Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO)
• European Patent Office (EPO)
• German Patent Office (DPMA)
• Indian Patent Office
• Japan Patent Office (JPO)
• Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO)
• National Industrial Property Institute, France (INPI)
• Netherlands Patent Office
• Nordic Patent Institute (NPI)
• Norwegian Industrial Property Office
• Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI)
• Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent)
• Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV)
• Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IGE)
• Turkish Patent Institute
• UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO)
• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO)

List of past patent offices or the like

• Confederate Patent Office
• Goskomizobretenie (Soviet patent office)
• International Patent Institute

See also

• Patent
• List of patent legal concepts
• List of people associated with patent law
• Intellectual property organisation

External links

• ''Directory of Intellectual Property Offices'' (incl. Patent Offices) on the WIPO web site

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