The Industrial Property Automation System (IPAS)

The Industrial Property Automation System (IPAS) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a flexible, modular system that can be customized to individual industrial  Property (IP)offices to automate their IP business and administrative processes from application reception to registration, including post-registration actions such as amendments, assignment, renewal,annuities, etc.

IPAS and its new web-based version IPAS Java are developed by the Infrastructure Modernization Division of WIPO. IPAS is one of the key components of the global IP infrastructure that is used by WIPO, along with a set of modernization services, to offer a comprehensive sustainable automation solution to requesting IP offices from developing countries with diverse levels of development, resources, capacity, skills and infrastructure.