WIPO Lex

WIPO Lex

WIPO Lex English interface main page
Web address	www.wipo.int/wipolex/
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Online Legal Database
Registration	Without registration
Available in	Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Users	1,5 million per year[1]
Owner	World Intellectual Property Organization
Launched	September 20, 2010[2]
Current status	Online and developing

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.^[1]

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.^[3][4][5][6]

See also

• World Intellectual Property Organization
• Intellectual property
• Treaty
• Computer-assisted legal research

References

1. "Report of the Director General to the WIPO Assemblies" (PDF). WIPO. 2015. p. 15.
2. "WIPO Launches One-Stop Search & Reference Tool for IP Laws and Treaties". WIPO. 2010.
3. "Yale Law School Library". — official website of the Lillian Goldman Law Library.
4. "Guide to Law Online - France". — official website of the Library of Congress.
5. "Intellectual Property Law". — official website of the Bodleian Library.
6. "WIPO". — official website of the National Diet Library.

External links

• About WIPO Lex — official website of WIPO.
• WIPO Lex, Database Of Global IP Systems — Intellectual Property Watch.