Model Laws

Patents, and technology Transfer

WIPO Model Law for Developing Countries on Inventions
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
WIPO Publication No. 840 (E), 1979. https://doi.org/10.34667/tind.28754, (link)

Model Provisions for Implementing the Patent Cooperation Treaty Particularly as far as the BIRPI Model Law for Developing Countries on Inventions is Concerned
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
WIPO and UNESCO. 1976 (link)

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)

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
Corporate author : World Intellectual Property Organization [663], Document Code: UNESCO/WIPO/FOLK/AFR/2
(link)

UNESCO Drafting Committee for the Model Provisions on the Prevention and Fight against the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property
(link)

Model Law for Protection of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
(link)

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
(link)

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)