Links
Below you can find useful links to various IP resources, including national and regional IP offices, intergovernmental organisations, non-governmental organisations, blogs and news. Get in touch if there’s something we should add.
Intellectual Property Offices
- African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI)
- African Regional Industrial Property Organization (ARIPO)
- Belize Intellectual Property Office
- Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP)
- Directory of National and Regional Industrial Property Offices (by WIPO)
- Directory of National Copyright Administrations (by WIPO)
- Eurasian Patent Organization
- European Patent Office (EPO)
- Japan Patent Office (JPO)
- UK Patent Office
- US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
- US Copyright Office
Intergovernmental Organisations
- African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
- Bioversity International
- Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
- Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH)
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
- South Centre
- UNCTAD Project on Dispute Settlement in International Trade, Investment and Intellectual Property
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights (UNHCHR)
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
- WIPO Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) Website
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
Blogs
- BIO Ventures for Global Health
- Boingboing
- Creative Commons
- Genetic Resources Policy
- Groklaw – Digging for Truth
- Intellectual Asset Management blog
- IP Dragon
- IP News this Week
- IPEG
- KSNH::Law
- Larry Lessig
- Michael Geist’s Blog
- Newmedia-law.com
- Patent Baristas
- Patent Docs
- Patent Quality Review Blog
- Patently-O
- PatentlyBIOtech
- Promote the Progress
- Public Knowledge
- Spicy IP
- The 271 Patent blog
- Trademark Blog of the Trademark Lawyer’s Mind
- Written Description
Industry and Free-Market Associations
- Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP)
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
- Intellectual Property Association of Bangladesh
- Intellectual Property Owners Association
- International Chamber of Commerce
- International Community of Breeders of Asexually Reproduced Ornamental and Fruit Varieties
- International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA)
- International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)
- International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA)
- IP Wire
- Motion Picture Association of America
- Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
- Recording Industry Association of America
- Stockholm Network
Information sources
- Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture
- CAMBIA-BIOS Initiative
- Commission on Intellectual Property Rights
- DNA Patent Database
- Economic Growth and Development: Role of IP Rights – American University
- Eldis Resource Centre on IPRs
- Free Patents Online Database
- Geographicalindications.com
- Intellectual Property Rights Experts Group (IPEG)
- ip Bulgaria
- IPR-Helpdesk
- IPRsonline.org
- ktMINE
- Patents, Trademarks & Copyrights
- SciDev.net
Listservs and Electronic Journals
- Electronic Journal of Biotechnology
- European Intellectual Property Review
- FAO-BiotechNews
- GRAIN’s Bio-IPR listserver
- International Journal of Technology and Globalisation
- Internet Patent News Service
- IP-Health
- RAFI/ETC News Service
- Science|Business
Non-governmental Organisations and Research Institutions – Africa
- Biowatch South Africa
- Egyptian Center for Intellectual Property and Information Technology
- Equinet, Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa
- Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Initiative (SEATINI)
- Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (TRALAC)
- Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC)
- Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)
Non-governmental Organisations and Research Institutions – Asia
- Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS)
- M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)
- Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI)
- South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE)
- Southeast Asia Regional Institute for Community Education (SEARICE)
- Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)
- Third World Network
- Yayasan Kehati (Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation)
Non-governmental Organisations and Research Institutions – Europe
- Centre d’Études Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CEIPI)
- Estonian Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Centre (EITK)
- European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE)
Non-governmental Organisations and Research Institutions – International
- Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC)
- ActionAid
- Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
- Centre for the Application of Molecular Biology to International Agriculture (CAMBIA)
- Creative Commons
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- Friends of the Earth (FoE)
- Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN)
- Health Action International (HAI)
- I-Mak
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
- IP Justice
- Knowledge Ecology International
- Médecins sans Frontières (MSF)
- Oxfam
- Protimos
- Public Knowledge
- Public Patent Foundation
- Public-Sector Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture
- Quakers United Nations Office (QUNO)
- Sustain
- The Lens
- Union for the Public Domain
Non-governmental Organisations and Research Institutions – Latin America
- Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization
- Asociación Interamericana de Propriedad Industrial (ASIPI)
- Associação Brasileira da Propriedade Intelectual (ABPI)
- Associação Paulista da Propriedade Industrial (ASPI)
- Centro de Derecho Ambiental y de los Recursos Naturales (CEDARENA)
- Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (CEMDA)
- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt
- Instituto Latinoamericano de Servicios Legales Alternativos (ILSA)
- Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (SPDA)
Research Centres
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
- Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke University School of Law
- Centro Internacional de Politica Económica para el Desarollo Sostenible (CINPE)
- East African Regional Programme and Research Network for Biotechnology, Biosafety and Biotechnology Policy Development (BIO-EARN)
- Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property
- Information Society Project, Yale Law School
- Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP)
- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio)
- International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI)
- Korea Intellectual Property Research Center (KIPRC)
- Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
- Oxford Intellectual Property Research Institute at St Peter’s College
- Queen Mary, University of London
- Scientific & Industrial Research & Development (SIRDC)
- Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics
- Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society
- UNU-IAS Biodiplomacy Initiative