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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, please see this list maintained by WIPO.

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

• African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO)
• Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) ^*
• Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) ^*
• European Patent Office (EPO) ^*
• German Patent Office (DPMA) ^*
• Indian Patent Office ^*
• IP Australia ^*
• Japan Patent Office (JPO) ^*
• Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI) ^*
• Irish Patent Office ^*
• State Intellectual Property Office of China ^*
• Intellectual Property Office of Singapore ^*
• Intellectual Property Office of Philippines ^*
• United Kingdom Patent Office ^*
• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ^*
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ^*

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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