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Most of the equivalent patents are incorporated in the discussion, to give a sense of the international coverage to the reader. A summary of the main claim is included as a definition of the property subject matter. As could be seen the property subject matter of a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) patent generally, is identical to one of the corresponding US patent (from the US Patent and Trademark Office, USPTO). However, in some instances a WIPO patent has more than one US equivalent patent. The equivalence between WIPO and US patents will be discussed for each particular case wherever relevant. 

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Undated. Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore. Geneva WIPO. Available at http //www.wipo. int/about-ip/en/studies/publications/genetic resources.htm [Accessed January 12, 2006]. 

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) http //www. wipo.int/about-wipo/en/what/... 

One important tool in the international patent world is the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). By filing an international patent application, one may seek patent protection for an invention simultaneously in each of a large number of countries. Such an application may be filed by anyone who is a national or resident of a contracting state of the PCT. A list of the more than 120 contracting states can be found on the website of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) [5]. The effect of the international application in each such state is the same as if a... 

Compare the worldwide statistics on patents collected by the World Intellectual Property Organization (wipo) at http //www.wipo.int/ipstats/en. Also, see the United Nations Development Program s (undp) Human Development Report 1999—Globalization with a Human Face (UNDP, 1999 69). 

In November 2000, the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) commented on the legal protection of traditional knowledge in a position paper.64 CEFIC began by acknowledging that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the appropriate body to deal with this issue and indicated that there are three separate issues to be dealt with ... 

As noted above, patent protection is obtained on a country-by-country basis, and therefore patent applications must be filed in each country where protection is desired. International treaties and regional conventions have been set up to coordinate and make obtaining worldwide protection convenient and efficient. Several important treaties have been developed and are administered by the international organization known as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), centered in Geneva, Switzerland. 

Naming the biotechnology-derived substances and products received increasing attention. Prevention of INNs from using trademarks has now been strengthened in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). A new point of collaboration was the protection of INNs against misuse of Internet domain names. " ... 

The change in the perception of hiodegradahle polymers is evident hy simply considering the trends from 1989 to 2012 in the fields of hiodegradahle (+2,800% for scientific literature and +1,100% for the sum of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) patents, European patents (EP) and United States (US) patents) and biodegradable plastics (+1,400% for scientific literature and +4,200% for the sum of WO, EP and US patents). 

WIPO PATENTSCOPE, full-text keywords (Polymer) and (Nanofibers) and (Electrospinning), http //patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/search.jsf (accessed November 2012). The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) bears no responsibility for the integrity or accuracy of the data contained herein, in particular due, but not limited, to any deletion, manipulation, or reformatting of data that may have occurred beyond its control. 

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