African Regional Intellectual Property Organization

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The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), formerly African Regional Industrial Property Organization, is an intergovernmental organization for cooperation among African states in patent and other industrial property matters. It has the capacity to hear applications for patents and registered trademarks in its member states who are parties to the Harare (patents) and Banjul (marks) protocols. It has the WIPO ST.3 code AP.

Its 15 member states are mostly English-speaking countries.

The name of the organization changed from African Regional Industrial Property Organization to African Regional Intellectual Property Organization in 2005.

Contents 1 Members 2 Observers 3 Rights covered 4 See also 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Members

1.  Botswana
2.  Gambia
3.  Ghana
4.  Kenya
5.  Lesotho
6.  Malawi
7.  Mozambique
8.  Namibia
9.  Sierra Leone
10.  Somalia
11.  Sudan
12.  Swaziland
13.  Tanzania
14.  Uganda
15.  Zambia
16.  Zimbabwe

[edit] Observers

1.  Algeria
2.  Angola
3.  Burundi
4.  Egypt
5.  Eritrea
6.  Ethiopia
7.  Liberia
8.  Libya
9.  Mauritius
10.  Nigeria
11.  Rwanda
12.  Seychelles
13.  South Africa
14.  Tunisia

[edit] Rights covered

Together, the two protocols constituting the organisation cover copyright, industrial design, patent, trademark, traditional knowledge and utility model rights.^[1]

[edit] See also

• Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI)

[edit] External links

• Official website

[edit] References