Intellectual Property - International

Intellectual property resource page with links to international intellectual property organizations, international intellectual property offices, international intellectual property institutes, and more.

see also

Copyright --and/or-- Patents

Intellectual Property - International

• Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure
  The Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights.
• Intellectual Property Rights
  Various foreign countries IP rights links from SICE, Foreign Trade Information System.
• International Intellectual Property Alliance
  A private section coalition that represents US copyright-based industries in "bilateral and multilateral effort to improve international protection of copyright materials."
• The International IP Directory
  A guide to lawyers around the world.
• Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law
  In English or German.
• Researching Intellectual Property in an International Contex
  By Stefanie Weigmann, Senior Reference Librarian at the Boson University School of Law. Published March 1, 2000.
• US Patent and Trademark Office
  A 'related web site' listing, linking to many countries intellectual property offices such as Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Mexico. Luxembourg, Sweden, Poland, Peru, UK, Malaysia, New Zealand, and more.
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Brazil

• Codigo da Propriedade Industrial
  In Portuguese and some English. By Denis Borges Barbosa of Neviani, Borges & Beildeck. Site includes text of Brazilian intellectual property and patent laws in Portuguese.

Europe

• European Intellectual Property Association
• IPR-Helpdesk
  In English (also available in French and German). A free, non-profit service funded by the European Community. Site has information dealing with Intellectual Property Rights issues: links to hundreds of IPR related websites including professional bodies, national and transnational patent authorities, and many others; access to patent search systems such as the European Patent Organization's esp@cenet service, which gives access to more than 30 million patent specifications; tutorials and specialized front ends to patent search services; a document collection including all EU Directives relating to IPR; and many other sources of information, including IP-Wire, our on-line newsletter, which is also available by e-mail on request.

Japan

• Shusaku Yamamoto Patent Law Offices
  A list of English language publications about Japanese intellectual property laws is available upon e-mail request.

Lithuania

• Patent Office

Pakistan

• Khursheed Khan & Associates
  Trademark, Patent Design & Copyright Attorneys. Site includes information on the law of patents, copyrights, trademarks, etc. in Pakistan

Intellectual property (International law)--Treaties

• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary & Artistic Works (Paris text, 1971)
  In English.
• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary & Artistic Works
  From WIPO

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