Wipo:The official World Intellectual Property Organization The website is an international organization dedicated to promoting the use and protection of human intellectual works. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, WIPO is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations system of organizations.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO for short) administers 24 international treaties (16 on industrial property, 7 on copyright, plus the Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization) covering various aspects of intellectual property protection. As of June 15, 2007, there are 184 countries as members.

The main functions of WIPO are to promote the protection of intellectual property rights worldwide through cooperation between countries, to manage the administration of 23 unions on patents, trademarks and copyrights based on multilateral treaties, and to deal with legal and administrative aspects of intellectual property rights