African Regional Intellectual Property Organization
- African Regional Intellectual Property Organization
The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), formerly African Regional Industrial Property Organization, is an intergovernmental organization for cooperation among African states in patent and other industrial property matters. It has the capacity to hear applications for patents and registered trademarks in its member states who are parties to the Harare (patents) and Banjul (marks) protocols. It has the WIPO ST.3 code AP.
Its 15 member states are mostly English-speaking countries.
The name of the organization changed from "African Regional Industrial Property Organization" to "African Regional Intellectual Property Organization" in 2005.
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Rights covered
Together, the two protocols constituting the organisation cover copyright, industrial design, patent, trademark, traditional knowledge and utility model rights. [cite web |url=http://www.aripo.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=14 |title=ARIPO Patent Office homepage |accessdate=2008-02-12]
ee also
* "Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle" (OAPI)
External links
* [http://www.aripo.org/index.php?lng=en Official website]
References
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
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