A profile of patenting activity in Angola

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.