Internet resources: WIPO launches “WIPO Lex” web tool

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has announced the launch of its new web tool -«WIPO Lex» - an online global intellectual property (IP) reference resource which provides up-to-date information on national IP laws and treaties. This centralized search facility is in line with one of the Organization’s strategic goals, namely to serve as a world reference source for IP information and analysis.

“WIPO Lex” currently claims to provide access to complete IP legal texts for over 60 countries with substantial coverage for a further 100 legal systems. What is more, considering the interests of the countries with no yet developed databases of laws, this web tool provides a platform to access information concerning their respective IP legislation.

“WIPO Lex” offers easy and direct access to a rich source of general and member-state-specific legal information and is a valuable research tool for policy-makers, researchers, users of the IP system and the general public,” said WIPO Director General Francis Gurry. “WIPO Lex has enabled us, for the first time, to consolidate the IP laws of member states and IP treaties and to make them available in a detailed and fully searchable format.”

“WIPO Lex” will be integrated into “WIPO GOLD” which was launched on June 1 2010 and provides quick and easy on-line access to a broad collection of searchable IP data and tools relating to technology, brands, designs, statistics, WIPO standards, and IP classification systems.