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WIPO Lex

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Type of site
  
Online Legal Database

Commercial
  
No

Website
  
www.wipo.int/wipolex/

Registration
  
Without registration

WIPO Lex

Available in
  
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Owner
  
World Intellectual Property Organization

WIPO Lex is an online database of national legislation and international treaties in the field of intellectual property. Maintenance and development of the database is exercised by the World Intellectual Property Organization.

The database contains national legislation of the Member States of WIPO, WTO and UN. In 2014 the database included legal acts of 196 States and cumulatively contained 13 thousand entries.

WIPO Lex also covers international treaties related to intellectual property. In particular, the database includes all WIPO-administered treaties.

The database is used as source of legal and reference information in universities and libraries all over the world.

Partnerships

The WIPO Lex team has established partnerships with following academic institutions:

  • Renmin University (China);
  • East China University of Political Science and Law;
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel);
  • Meiji University (Japan);
  • Russian State Academy of Intellectual Property;
  • Russian Foreign Trade Academy;
  • Institute for International Business Law of the Fribourg University (Switzerland);
  • Vanderbilt University (United States).

    • References

    WIPO Lex Wikipedia
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