Organizations and patent offices

For more details on this topic, see Intellectual property organization

Intellectual property organization

Intellectual property organizations are organizations that are focused on copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other intellectual property law concepts....

 (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

Patent office

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 or not the application fulfils the requirements for...

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Treaties, conventions and other legal texts and frameworks

• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
  Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
  The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights is an international agreement administered by the World Trade Organization that sets down minimum standards for many forms of intellectual property regulation as applied to nationals of other WTO Members...
  
   (TRIPs Agreement)
• American Inventors Protection Act
  American Inventors Protection Act
  The American Inventors Protection Act is a United States federal law enacted on November 29, 1999 as Public Law 106-113. In 2002, the Intellectual Property and High Technology Technical Amendments Act of 2002, Public Law 107-273, amended AIPA....
  
   (AIPA)
• Budapest Treaty
  Budapest Treaty
  The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, or Budapest Treaty, is an international treaty signed in Budapest, Hungary, on April 28, 1977. It entered into force on August 9, 1980, and was later amended on September 26,...
  
  
• EU Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions
  Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions
  The Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions , procedure number 2002/0047 was a proposal for a European Union directive aimed to harmonise national patent laws and practices concerning the granting of patents...
  
  (proposed, then rejected)
• EU Directive on the Patentability of Biotechnological Inventions
  Directive on the patentability of biotechnological inventions
  Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventionsis a European Union directive in the field of patent law, made under the internal marketprovisions of the Treaty of Rome...
  
  
• EU patent (proposed)
• European Convention on the International Classification of Patents for Invention
  European Convention on the International Classification of Patents for Invention
  The European Convention on the International Classification of Patents for Invention was signed on December 19, 1954 in Paris, France by members of the Council of Europe. It entered into force on August 1, 1955 and it was denounced by all Parties and ceased to be in force as from February 18, 1999....
  
   (1954)
• European Convention relating to the Formalities required for Patent Applications
  European Convention relating to the Formalities required for Patent Applications
  The European Convention relating to the formalities required for patent applications was signed at Paris on December 11, 1953. Its aim was to "simplify and unify, as far as it is possible, the formalities required by the various national legislations for patent applications"...
  
   (1953)
• European Patent Convention
  European Patent Convention
  The Convention on the Grant of European Patents of 5 October 1973, commonly known as the European Patent Convention , is a multilateral treaty instituting the European Patent Organisation and providing an autonomous legal system according to which European patents are granted...
  
   (EPC)
• European Patent Litigation Agreement
  European Patent Litigation Agreement
  The draft European Patent Litigation Agreement , or formally the Draft Agreement on the establishment of a European patent litigation system, is a proposed patent law agreement aimed at creating an "optional protocol to the European Patent Convention which would commit its signatory states to an...
  
   (EPLA) (proposed)
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was negotiated during the UN Conference on Trade and Employment and was the outcome of the failure of negotiating governments to create the International Trade Organization . GATT was signed in 1947 and lasted until 1993, when it was replaced by the World...
  
   (GATT)
• London Agreement
  London Agreement (2000)
  The London Agreement, formally the Agreement on the application of Article 65 of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents and sometimes referred to as the London Protocol, is a patent law agreement concluded in London on 17 October 2000 and aimed at reducing the translation costs of European...
  
   (2000)
• NATO Agreement for the mutual safeguarding of secrecy of inventions relating to defence (1960)
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
  Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
  The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed in Paris, France, on March 20, 1883, was one of the first intellectual property treaties. It established a Union for the protection of industrial property...
  
  
• Patent Act of 1922
  Patent Act of 1922
  The Patent Act of 1922 began circulating general information about how to acquire a patent to the general public as a means of spurring private invention initiatives....
  
  
• U.S. Patent Reform Acts of 2005
  Patent Reform Act of 2005
  The Patent Reform Act of 2005 was United States patent legislation proposed in the 109th United States Congress. Texas Republican Congressman Lamar S. Smith introduced the Act on 8 June 2005. Smith called the Act "the most comprehensive change to U.S...
  
  , 2007
  Patent Reform Act of 2007
  The Patent Reform Act of 2007 is a proposal introduced in the 110th United States Congress for changes in United States patent law. Democratic Congressman Howard Berman introduced the House of Representatives bill on April 18, 2007. Democratic Party Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the Senate bill...
  
   and 2009
  Patent Reform Act of 2009
  The Patent Reform Act of 2009 was a set of proposals introduced in the 111th United States Congress for changes in United States patent law. Senators Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy introduced a Senate bill on March 3, 2009. Representative John Conyers introduced the House version, H.R. 1260, the...
  
  
• Patent Cooperation Treaty
  Patent Cooperation Treaty
  The Patent Cooperation Treaty is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states...
  
   (PCT)
• Patent Law Treaty
  Patent Law Treaty
  The Patent Law Treaty is a patent law multilateral treaty concluded on 1 June 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland, by 53 States and the European Patent Organisation...
  
   (PLT)
• Substantive Patent Law Treaty
  Substantive Patent Law Treaty
  The Substantive Patent Law Treaty is a proposed international patent law treaty aimed at harmonizing substantive points of patent law. In contrast with the Patent Law Treaty , signed in 2000 and now in force, which only relates to formalities, the SPLT aims at going far beyond formalities to...
  
   (SPLT) (proposed)
• Statute of Monopolies 1623
  Statute of Monopolies 1623
  The Statute of Monopolies was an Act of the Parliament of England notable as the first statutory expression of English patent law. Patents evolved from letters patent, issued by the monarch to grant monopolies over particular industries to skilled individuals with new techniques...
  
  
• Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification
  Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification
  The Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification , also known as the IPC Agreement, was signed in Strasbourg, France, on March 24, 1971 and entered into force on October 7, 1975...
  
   (1971)
• Strasbourg Convention
  Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention
  The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention, also called Strasbourg Convention or Strasbourg Patent Convention, is a multilateral treaty signed by Member States of the Council of Europe on November 27, 1963 in Strasbourg, France...
  
   (1963)

Patent law by countries and regions

See also: :Category:Patent law by country

• Australian patent law
  Australian patent law
  Australian patent law is law governing the granting of a temporary monopoly on the use of an invention, in exchange for the publication and free use of the invention after a certain time. The primary piece of legislation is the Patents Act 1990 . Patents are administered by the Commonwealth...
  
  
• Canadian patent law
  Canadian patent law
  Canadian patent law is the legal system regulating the granting of patents for inventions within Canada, and the enforcement of these rights in Canada.- Background :...
  
  
• European patent law
  European patent law
  European patent law covers a wide range of legislations including national patent laws, the Strasbourg Convention of 1963, the European Patent Convention of 1973, and a number of European Union directives and regulations....
  
  
• Japanese patent law
  Japanese patent law
  Japanese patent law is based on the first-to-file principle and is mainly given force by the Patent Act of Japan. Article 2 defines an invention as "the highly advanced creation of technical ideas by which a law of nature is utilized"...
  
  
• South African patent system
  South African patent system
  The South African patent system is the system by which patents are granted in South Africa.As is the case in many other countries, a patent provides legal protection for a new and industrially applicable invention. This invention, which constitutes either a product or process, has to be brought...
  
  
• United States patent law
  United States patent law
  United States patent law was established "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" as provided by the United States Constitution. Congress implemented these...
  
  

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