This study aims to display some information regarding the
activity of filing patent applications before the Angolan National
Patent Office (IAPI), presenting a profile of the main patent
applicants and the kinds of technologies for which the applicants
seek patent protection in Angola.
Identifying information regarding patent activity in Angola is
not an easy task. The IAPI does not publish a bibliography of filed
patent applications on its homepage, nor does it provide data to
Espacenet, the most comprehensive, free, patent database. As a
matter of fact, the country code of Angola (AO) is not even
included in the list of countries codes indexed in the
Espacenet.
Therefore, our source of information for performing this study
was the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO)
statistics database and the Official Bulletin of Industrial
Property (OBIP), which is prepared by IAPI. The OBIP comprises
bibliographic data of patent applications, including the
