National and regional patent offices
4 May 2020
National and regional patent offices
MPP has several collaborative agreements with national and regional patent offices to collect patent information for inclusion in MedsPaL, its Medicines Patents and Licences Database.
MPP collaborates with the following regional patent offices:
- African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO)
- Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO)
- European Patent Office (EPO) that facilitates the automatic update of some of the information contained in MedsPaL
In addition, MPP has agreements with the following country patent offices, that enables regular updating of national patent data:
- Argentina’s National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI)
- Brazil’s National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI)
- Chile’s National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI)
- Dominican Republic’s National Office of Industrial Property (ONAPI)
- Ecuador’s National Service of Intellectual Rights (SENADI)
- Egyptian Patent Office (EGPO)
- El Salvador’s National Registry Center (CNR)
- Peru’s National Institute for the Defense of Free Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI)
- South Africa’s Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC)
- Uruguay’s National Directorate of Industrial Property (DNPI)
National or regional patent offices interested in partnering may contact: medspal@medicinespatentpool.org. You can also contact us to have access to MPP’s model agreement with patent offices.