Patents, and technology Transfer
WIPO Model Law for Developing Countries on Inventions, 1965.
United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual of Intellectual Property (B.I.R.P.I). 1965. (link)
WIPO Model Law For Developing Countries on Inventions, Vol 1. Patents, 1979 WIPO Publication No. 840 (E), 1979. https://doi.org/10.34667/tind.28754, (link) This was an update to the 1965 BIRPI model law. Developed “under the guidance” of the WIPO Permanent Committee for Development Cooperation Related to Industrial Property (hereinafter “the Permanent Committee.” The work on the revision of the BIRPI model law began in 1974. A Working Group on the Model Law for Developing Countries on Inventions and Know-How (hereinafter “the Working Group”) was established and held eight sessions ( November 1974, May 1975. November 1975, June 1976, November/December 1976, June 1977,May 1978 and March 1979). The Working Group was composed of experts acting in their personal capacities, from a certain number of countries, and observers, representing a certain number of intergovernmental organizations and international non-governmental organizations. The experts were appointed by the International Bureau of WIPO after consultation with the interested Governments.
Model Provisions for Implementing the Patent Cooperation Treaty Particularly as far as the BIRPI Model Law for Developing Countries on Inventions is Concerned, 1971. Document Prepared by the International Bureau. PCT/AAQ/II/3, October 15, 1971 (link)
WIPO Model Law For Developing Countries On Inventions, Volume II. Know-How, Examination and Registration Of Contracts, Inventors, Certificates, Technovations, Transfer Of Technology Patents
WIPO Publication 841(E), 1980. (link)
Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) – GRULAC proposal – Revision of 1979 WIPO Model Law for Developing Countries
KEI Blog on proposal. 2015. (link)
Industrial Property
Model Law for Developing Countries on Industrial Designs
WIPO Publication 808 (E) 1970. (link)
Model Law for Developing Countries on Appellations of Origin and Indications of Source
WIPO Publication 809 (E), 1975. (link)
Model Law for Developing Countries on Marks, Trade Names, and Acts of Unfair Competition
WIPO Publication 805 (E), 1967. (link)
Model law for Arab States on Trademarks, Trade Names, Commercial Indications and Acts of Unfair Competition
WIPO, 1975.
Model Trademark Law Guidelines: A report on consensus points for trademark laws. International Trademark Association. Revised July 2019. (link)
Copyright and Related Rights
Tunis Model Law on Copyright for developing countries, 1976. WIPO and UNESCO. (link) The Report of the Committee of Governmental Experts to prepare a Model Law on Copyright for Developing Countries is available in Copyright: Monthly Review of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), June 1976, here.
Model Law Concerning the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations
International Labor Organization (ILO), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), WIPO publication ; no. 811 (E), 1974, published again by WIPO in 1982. (link)
Model Provisions Concerning the Access by Handicapped Persons to the Works Protected by Copyright. Produced by a Working Group on Access by the Visually and Auditory Handicapped to Material Reproducing Works Protected by Copyright that was convened jointly by the Director-General of UNESCO and the Director General of WIPO in pursuance of the decision taken by the respective Governing Bodies of Unesco and WIPO and the recommendation made by the Executive Committee of the Berne Union and the Intergovernmental Committee of the Universal Copyright Convention at their November-December 1981 sessions. link
Model Provisions on the Protection of Computer Software. (link) Published in 1978, the model law was the result of a request from the UN and six years of work carried out by the International Bureau of WIPO with the assistance of experts, including meetings in 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1977, of an “Advisory Group of Non-Governmental Experts on the Protection of Computer Programs.”
Draft Model Law on Copyright, 1990. Committee of Experts on Model Provisions for Legislation in the Field of Copyright. The draft model law is based upon a memorandum that the International Bureau of WIPO prepared (hereinafter referred to as “the preparatory document”) and is accompanied by the report on the discussions and conclusions of a “Committee of Experts on Model Provisions for Legislation in the Field of Copyright.” The preparatory document was published on March 30, 1990, under the title “Draft Model Law on Copyright” and it has the document number CE/MPC/III/2. The report was adopted by the Committee of Experts on July 13, 1990, and it has the document number CE/MPC/III/3.
ARIPO Model Law On Copyright And Related Rights, 2019. . Link.
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/ld.php?content_id=50899561
Traditional Knowledge, Expressions of folklore, Cultural Property
Model provisions for national laws on the protection of expressions of folklore against illicit exploitation and other prejudicial actions, with a commentary, 1985
Corporate author : World Intellectual Property Organization [663], Document Code: UNESCO/WIPO/FOLK/AFR/2
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UNESCO Drafting Committee for the Model Provisions on the Prevention and Fight against the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property
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Model Law for Protection of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
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Misc
The OAU’s Model Law: The Protection of the Rights of Local Communities, Farmers and Breeders, and for the Regulation of Access to Biological Resources
(link) Also, from WIPO here.
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Model Law on Competition
UNCTAD Series on Issues in Competition Law and Policy: Substantive Possible Elements for a competition law, commentaries and alternative approaches in existing legislations. 2007 (link)
The Model Law on Access to Information for Africa and other regional instruments: Soft law and human rights in Africa
https://www.corteidh.or.cr/tablas/33768.pdf
Model Law on Access to Information for Africa
Prepared by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, With the support of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). (link)
African Union Model Law on the Protection of Cultural Property and Heritage
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Model Inter-American Law on Access to Information
Organization of American States (OAS). Document presented by the Group of Experts on Access to Information coordinated by the Department of International Law, of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs, pursuant to General Assembly Resolution AG/RES. 2514 (XXXIX-O/09)) (link). Permanent Council of the OEA/Ser.G, Organization of American States CP/CAJP-2841/10, 23 April 2010, Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs: Commentary and Guide for Implementation for the Model Iteramerican law on access to information. (Document presented by the Group of Experts on Access to Information pursuant to General Assembly Resolution AG/RES. 2514 (XXXIX-O/09). (link)