African Regional Intellectual Property Organization
The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (African Regional Intellectual Property Organization - ARIPO ) is an international organization for cooperation among African states in patent law and other industrial property issues. She has the expertise, applications for patents and trademarks in its member States which are members of the Harare (patents ) and Banjul ( brands) protocols are to hear. It has the WIPO ST.3 code AP.
Its 16 member countries are predominantly English-speaking. Another organization, the Organization Africaine de la Propriété Intellectual, comprises mainly French-speaking Africa.
The official name of the organization changed in 2005 by African Regional Industrial Property Organization in African Regional Intellectual Property Organization
Members
- Botswana Botswana
- Gambia Gambia
- Ghana Ghana
- Kenya
- Lesotho Lesotho
- Malawi Malawi
- Mozambique Mozambique
- Namibia Namibia
- Zambia Zambia
- Sierra Leone Sierra Leone
- Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
- Somalia Somalia
- Sudan Sudan
- Swaziland Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Uganda Uganda