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WIPO Launches New Application Programming Interface (API) Catalog for Intellectual Property

July 3, 2024

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today launched its first Application Programming Interface (API) Catalog to provide a comprehensive index of APIs by Intellectual Property (IP) institutions, enabling users to search and find APIs from IP Institutions around the world for filing, payment, portfolio management, search and other IP related services.

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As the demand to add more features and develop new applications accelerates at an unprecedented pace, reliance on APIs has surged dramatically.

This Catalog will facilitate the ease in discovering available APIs for IP institutions, enabling the sharing of information and best practices of IP offices.

Delivering the opening remarks at the launch event, WIPO Assistant Director General of the Infrastructure and Platforms Sector Kenichiro NATSUME noted that the creation of the API Catalog stands as a testament to our collaborative efforts. The API Catalog represents more than just a technical achievement; it is a symbol of close collaboration between WIPO and IP offices to provide better IP services to stakeholders and users around the world.

The Catalog also provides a single point of access to all these APIs and features a series of functionalities allowing APIs supporting IP services to be quickly located.

The API Catalog will deliver the following:

  • For Users: provide a single point to discover available APIs for IP (see User Guide)
  • For IP Institutions: promote APIs, facilitate the sharing of information and allow the sharing of best practices of other IP institutions (see Institution Guide)

For Members of the Committee on WIPO Standards: coordinate API services among Offices in a streamlined manner, and promote the use of WIPO Standards ST.90, ST.96 and ST.97.

What can I find on the API Catalog?

The Catalog provides a list of relevant APIs based on user’s search entries. Once the relevant API is located, you can select it and leave the Catalog portal website.

Where can I find it?

Visit the API Catalog welcome page here.

I’m an IP Institution

If you would like to promote your APIs through our portal, please contact us for further details.

Background

The Committee on WIPO Standards (CWS) was created in 2009 to serve as a forum to adopt new or revised WIPO Standards, policies, recommendations and statements of principle relating to intellectual property data, global information system related matters, information services on the global system, data dissemination and documentation.

The 8th session of the CWS in Dec. 2020 agreed on Task No. 56 which refers to the development of a unified API Catalog.

API Task Force Meetings were held in 2022 and 2023, to discuss the potential opportunities and benefits of producing the unified API Catalog.

A proposal was submitted to implement the unified catalog, which provides a list of those APIs which IP offices expose externally.

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