Patent office

Government agency that issues patents

For offices created by letters patent, see Letters patent (United Kingdom).

Patent law

Overviews

* Patent
* Patent claim
* History
* Economics
* Criticism

Procedural concepts

* Application
* Prosecution
* Opposition
* Valuation
* Licensing
* Infringement

Patentability requirements and related concepts

* Patentable subject matter
* Inventorship
* Novelty
* Inventive step and non-obviousness
* Industrial applicability
* Utility
* Person skilled in the art
* Prior art

Other legal requirements

* Sufficiency of disclosure
* Unity of invention

By region / country

* Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
* Australia
* Canada
* China
* Europe
* Germany
* Japan
* Netherlands
* United States

By specific subject matter

* Biological
* Business method
* Chemical
* Insurance
* Software
* Tax

See also

* Patent analysis
* Pirate Party
* Category
* Glossary

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A patent office is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents. In other words, "patent offices are government bodies that may grant a patent or reject the patent application based on whether the application fulfils the requirements for patentability."[1]

## List of patent offices

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

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

* African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO)
* Intellectual Property Agency of Armenia (AIPA)
* IP Australia (IPA)
* Barbados Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office (CAIPO)
* Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
* Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA)
* Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office (EIPO)
* European Patent Office (EPO)
* Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO)
* German Patent Office (DPMA)
* Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Patent Office (GCCPO)
* Indian Patent Office (IPO)
* Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS)
* Israeli Patent Office
* Italian Patent and Trademark Office
* Japan Patent Office (JPO)
* Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO)
* Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI)
* National Industrial Property Institute, France (INPI)
* National Industrial Property Institute, Portugal (INPI)
* National Institute of Intellectual Property, Kazakhstan (NIIP)
* Netherlands Patent Office
* Nordic Patent Institute (NPI)
* Norwegian Industrial Property Office
* "Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle" (OAPI)
* Patent Office of the Republic of Latvia
* Intellectual Property Organisation of Pakistan (IPO)
* Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL)
* Polish Patent Office (PPO)
* Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, (Rospatent), Russian Federation
* Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO)
* Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV)
* Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IGE)
* Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) Republic of China
* Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT)
* Ukrainian Patent Office (officially 'State Enterprise "Ukrainian Institute of Industrial Property"', or 'SE "UIPV"')
* United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO)
* United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

## List of past patent offices or the like

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* Confederate States Patent Office
* "Goskomizobretenie" (Soviet Union patent office)
* International Patent Institute

## See also

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* Glossary of patent law terms
* Intellectual property organisation
* List of people associated with patent law
* Patent court
* World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

## References

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1. ^ European Commission, Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry, Preliminary Report (DG Competition Staff Working Paper), 28 November 2008, page 89 (pdf, 1.95 MB).

## External links

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

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