African Regional Intellectual Property Organization

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Map of current ARIPO members in blue, nations with observer status in green.

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 16 member states[1] 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.

Contents

[edit] Members

  1.  Botswana
  2.  Gambia
  3.  Ghana
  4.  Kenya
  5.  Lesotho
  6.  Malawi
  7.  Mozambique
  8.  Namibia
  9.  Sierra Leone
  10.  Somalia
  11.  Sudan
  12.  Swaziland
  13.  Tanzania
  14.  Uganda
  15.  Zambia
  16.  Zimbabwe

[edit] Observers

  1.  Algeria
  2.  Angola
  3.  Burundi
  4.  Egypt
  5.  Eritrea
  6.  Ethiopia
  7.  Liberia
  8.  Libya
  9.  Mauritius
  10.  Nigeria
  11.  Rwanda
  12.  Seychelles
  13.  South Africa
  14.  Tunisia

[edit] Rights covered

Together, the two protocols constituting the organisation cover copyright, industrial design, patent, trademark, traditional knowledge and utility model rights.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ ARIPO web site, Membership. Consulted on November 6, 2009.
  2. ^ "ARIPO Patent Office homepage". http://www.aripo.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=14. Retrieved 2008-02-12. 

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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