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This is a list of topics related to patents. See list of patent legal concepts for a list of articles on various legal aspects of patents, including special types of patents and patent applications.

Organizations and patent offices

For more details on this topic, see Intellectual property organization (including international intergovernmental, non-governmental, non-profit, lobbying organizations, and think thanks, as well as professional associations).

For a list of patent offices, see Patent office.

Treaties, conventions and other legal texts and frameworks

• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs Agreement)
• American Inventors Protection Act (AIPA)
• Budapest Treaty
• Community patent (proposed)
• EU Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions (proposed, then rejected)
• EU Directive on the Patentability of Biotechnological Inventions
• European Patent Convention (EPC)
• European patent law
• European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) (proposed)
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
• Japanese patent law
• London Agreement (concluded but not in force yet)
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• U.S. Patent Reform Act of 2005
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
• Patent Law Treaty (PLT)
• South African patent system
• Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) (proposed)
• Statute of Monopolies 1623
• Strasbourg Convention
• United States patent law

Other

• Copyright on the content of patents
• epoline
• Espacenet
• Essential patent
• European Patent Office Reports (EPOR)
• Gene patent
• Industrial property
• Invention
• International Patent Documentation Center (INPADOC)
• International Patent Classification (IPC)
• List of patent case law
• List of people associated with patent law
• List of top United States patent recipients
• Patent ambush
• Patent attorney
• Patent caveat
• Patent classification
• Patent examiner
• Patent family
• Patent holding company
• Patent pirate
• Patent pool
• Patent portfolio
• Patent Prosecution Highway‎ (PPH)
• Patent thicket
• Patent troll
• Public participation in patent examination
• Scams in intellectual property
• United States Patents Quarterly
• X-Patent