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 maintained list, .The entries shown in italics are regional or international patent offices.
- African Regional Intellectual Property Organization
- Intellectual Property Agency of Armenia
- IP Australia
- Barbados Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office
- Canadian Intellectual Property Office
- Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration
- Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office
- European Patent Office
- Eurasian Patent Organization
- German Patent Office
- Gulf Cooperation Council Patent Office
- Intellectual Property Office of Ireland
- Indian Patent Office
- Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
- Israeli Patent Office
- Italian Patent and Trademark Office
- Japan Patent Office
- Korean Intellectual Property Office
- Mexican Institute of Industrial Property
- National Industrial Property Institute, France
- National Industrial Property Institute, Portugal
- National Institute of Intellectual Property, Kazakhstan
- Netherlands Patent Office
- Nordic Patent Institute
- Norwegian Industrial Property Office
- "Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle"
- Patent Office of the Republic of Latvia
- Intellectual Property Organisation of Pakistan
- Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines
- Polish Patent Office
- Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property,, Russian Federation
- Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
- Swedish Patent and Registration Office
- Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
- Taiwan Intellectual Property Office Republic of China
- Turkish Patent and Trademark Office
- , formerly Ukrainian Institute of Intellectual Property
- United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
List of past patent offices or the like
- Confederate States Patent Office
- "Goskomizobretenie"
- International Patent Institute