Intellectual property INDEX

Countries designated as members of the European Patent Organization (EPO), the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI), or PCT may be found as designated states in the records of EP, OA, and WO documents, whether or not those countries are indexed separately in a database. 

A survey of issues by World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) at http // ecommerce.wipo.int/survey/index.html... 

The Collection of Laws for Electronic Access (CLEA). World Industrial Property Organization, Geneva. URL http //www. wipo.int/clea/en/index.jsp. The text of intellectual property laws of all countries and patenting authorities that make them available to WIPO for publication on the Internet, many with English language translations. 

Anyone applying for a patent at the national or international level is required to determine whether their creation is new or is already owned or claimed. To determine this, huge amounts of information must be searched. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization s (WIPO) International Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) have created classification systems which organize information concerning inventions into indexed, manageable categories for easy retrieval. 

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Available http //www.wipo.int/ portal/index.html.en. 

World Health Organization (2003). Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights. Available http //www.who.int/intellectualproperty/documents/thereport/ en/index.html. Accessed 20 July 2006. 

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