Partners

The Academy strives to enhance the network established in the past (by the EPO International Academy) comprising of international and national institutions and organisations as well as of universities, research and training institutions and practitioners in the field of intellectual property.

Together with experts and specialists from the EPO and the national offices of the contracting states to the European Patent Convention, this network of partners generates synergies and enhances the effectiveness of training courses, designed to meet the specific needs of the trainees. In particular, the Academy co-operates with the:

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva  
http://www.wipo.org

Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), Alicante  
http://oami.europa.eu

Benelux Trademark Office (BBM), The Hague  
http://www.bmb-bbm.org

Industrial property offices of the contracting states to the European Patent Convention
http://www.epo.org/topics/ip-webguide/IPofficesmembers.

The IPR Helpdesk
http://www.iprhelpdesk.eu

Institute of Professional Representatives before the EPO (epi), Munich  
http://www.patentepi.com

Centre for International Industrial Property Studies at the Robert Schuman University (CEIPI), Strasbourg
http://www.ceipi.edu/

Institut Européen Entreprise et Propriété Intellectuelle (IEEPI), Strasbourg
http://www.ieepi.org

Delta Patents B.V., Eindhoven
http://www.deltapatents.com

European Intellectual Property Institutes Network (EIPIN), ie

The University of Alicante
http://ml.ua.es/

CEIPI, Strasbourg
http://www.ceipi.edu/

ETH, Zurich
http://www.ndsip.ethz.ch/  

Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
http://www.ccls.edu

Munich Intellectual Property Law Center,  Munich  
http://www.miplc.de/

Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe  
http://www.isi.fhg.de

Licensing Executives Society
http://www.les-europe.org

BUSINESS EUROPE
http://www.businesseurope.eu/