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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a UN agency established in 1967, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with 193 member states. It administers 26 international treaties related to intellectual property (IP), provides services for IP registration and protection, and offers technical assistance to member states. WIPO also facilitates dispute resolution and maintains databases on IP statistics. The organization is primarily funded through fees from its global IP services, focusing on promoting and protecting innovation and creativity worldwide. The convention establishing WIPO took place in Stockholm in 1967.
The Global Brand Database is your gateway to more than 28,540,000 records from 35 national and international collections, and the first step in researching whether a mark similar or identical to yours already exists. Search the Global Brand Database before filing a trademark application, or to simply browse marks in markets that interest you. Five different types of searchable fields are divided into separate tabs for convenience. Specific information and hints are available in the help for each individual tab: Brand, Names, Numbers, Dates, Class and Country.
WIPO is the global forum for intellectual property services, policy, information and cooperation. We are a self-funding agency of the United Nations, with 189 member states. Our mission is to lead the development of a balanced and effective international intellectual property (IP) system that enables innovation and creativity for the benefit of all. Our mandate, governing bodies and procedures are set out in the WIPO Convention, which established WIPO in 1967.
WIPOCOS is a modular, multi-purpose and multi-user client-server application developed by WIPO for collective management organizations or societies (CMOs). The reliable solution enables organizations to perform, with full accountability, all operations related to copyright and rights management. WIPOCOS is a demand-driven tool that makes it easier to transfer technology in the ever-evolving, intricate and globalizing field. Designed to help stakeholders in developing countries to overcome the expense and complexity of Intellectual Property systems, WIPOCOS consists of several interlinked databases that are designed to interact with the existing international databases established by CMOs throughout the world.