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 18 member states[1] are mostly English-speaking countries. Rwanda became the 18th member state on March 24, 2010.[2][3]
The name of the organization changed from African Regional Industrial Property Organization to African Regional Intellectual Property Organization in 2005.
Contents |
[edit] Members
[edit] Observers
[edit] Rights covered
Together, the two protocols constituting the organisation cover copyright, industrial design, patent, trademark, traditional knowledge and utility model rights.[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ ARIPO web site, Member States. Consulted on September 16, 2011.
- ^ ARIPO web site, Rwanda Joins ARIPO, News, Thursday, 4 August 2011. Consulted on September 16, 2011.
- ^ Rwanda Joins ARIPO, PCT Newsletter, September 2011, No. 09/2010, p. 1.
- ^ "ARIPO Patent Office homepage". http://www.aripo.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=14. Retrieved 2008-02-12.
