Patent office

A patent office is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents. In other words, "patent offices are government bodies that may grant a patent or reject the patent application based on whether the application fulfils the requirements for patentability."

List of patent offices
For a list of patent offices and their websites, see the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) maintained list, here.

The entries shown in italics are regional or international patent offices.


 * African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO)
 * Intellectual Property Agency of Armenia (AIPA)
 * IP Australia (IPA)
 * Barbados Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office (CAIPO)
 * Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
 * Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA)
 * Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office (EIPO)
 * European Patent Office (EPO)
 * Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO)
 * German Patent Office (DPMA)
 * Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Patent Office (GCCPO)
 * Indian Patent Office (IPO)
 * Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS)
 * Israeli Patent Office
 * Italian Patent and Trademark Office
 * Japan Patent Office (JPO)
 * Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO)
 * Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI)
 * National Industrial Property Institute, France (INPI)
 * National Industrial Property Institute, Portugal (INPI)
 * National Institute of Intellectual Property, Kazakhstan (NIIP)
 * Netherlands Patent Office
 * Nordic Patent Institute (NPI)
 * Norwegian Industrial Property Office
 * "Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle" (OAPI)
 * Patent Office of the Republic of Latvia
 * Intellectual Property Organisation of Pakistan (IPO)
 * Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL)
 * Polish Patent Office (PPO)
 * Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, (Rospatent), Russian Federation
 * Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO)
 * Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV)
 * Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IGE)
 * Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) Republic of China
 * Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT)
 * Ukrainian Patent Office (officially 'State Enterprise "Ukrainian Institute of Industrial Property"', or 'SE "UIPV"')
 * United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO)
 * United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

List of past patent offices or the like

 * Confederate States Patent Office
 * "Goskomizobretenie" (Soviet Union patent office)
 * International Patent Institute