WIPO Lex

WIPO Lex
WIPO Lex English presentation page
WIPO Lex English presentation page
Type of site
Online Legal Database
Available inArabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
OwnerWorld Intellectual Property Organization
URLwww.wipo.int/en/web/wipolex
CommercialNo
RegistrationNo registration
Users1.8 million in 2015[1]
LaunchedSeptember 20, 2010 (2010-09-20)[2]
Current statusOnline and developing

WIPO Lex is an online global database launched in 2010,[2] which provides free public access to intellectual property laws, treaties and judicial decisions from around the world. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) maintains and develops the database.

The objective of WIPO Lex is to provide information concerning the protection of intellectual property of WIPO Member States in accordance with Article 4(vi) of the WIPO Convention, which states that WIPO "shall assemble and disseminate information concerning the protection of intellectual property, carry out and promote studies in this field, and publish the results of such studies."[3]

WIPO Lex contains IP legal information of UN Members, as well as World Trade Organization (WTO) Members pursuant to Article 2(4) of the Agreement between WIPO and WTO of December 22, 1995 and Article 63.2 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. WIPO Lex also covers international treaties related to intellectual property. In particular, the database includes all WIPO-administered treaties.[4][5]

In 2014 the database included legal acts of 196 States and cumulatively contained 13 thousand entries.[6] In 2022, the WIPO Lex Database contained 48,000 national, regional and international legal documents relating to intellectual property, with access in the six UN languages.[7]

The database is used as source of legal and reference information in universities and libraries all over the world.[8][9][10]

  1. ^ "WIPO Lex: Building the World's IP Law Database". WIPO Magazine. 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  2. ^ a b "WIPO Launches One-Stop Search & Reference Tool for IP Laws and Treaties". WIPO. 2010.
  3. ^ "WIPO Lex Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - wipolex - WIPO Liferay DXP". wipolex. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  4. ^ "WIPO Lex Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)". www.wipo.int. Retrieved 24 August 2022. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  5. ^ "WIPO-Administered Treaties". www.wipo.int. Retrieved 2022-07-14. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  6. ^ "Report of the Director General to the WIPO Assemblies" (PDF). WIPO. 2015. p. 13.
  7. ^ "IP for the Good of Everyone. Report of the Director General to the 2021 WIPO Assemblies" (PDF). WIPO. 2021. p. 23.
  8. ^ "Yale Law School Library". Archived from the original on 2015-11-22. Retrieved 2015-12-11. — official website of the Lillian Goldman Law Library.
  9. ^ "Guide to Law Online - France". Library of Congress. — official website of the Library of Congress.
  10. ^ "WIPO". — official website of the National Diet Library.