OBJECTIVES OF OAPI

The overall objective of the Organization is to be closely involved in the technological development of member states while valorizing all the possibilities offered by patent rights. In order to reach this goal, AIPO contributes in:

• ensuring the protection and the publication of patent rights titles;
• making the legal framework attractive to private investment by the creation of conditions favorable to the effective application of the principles of intellectual property;
• encouraging creativity and transfer of technology
• setting up efficient training programmes to better the capacities of the AIPO system to offer quality services;
• creating conditions favorable to the valorization of the results of research and to the exploitation of technological innovations by national enterprises.