intergovernmental organization industry pct international searching authority pct international preliminary examining authority prior art search provider founded july 5 2006 headquarters taastrup denmark area served worldwide key people lone hartung nielsen director general gr tar ingi gr tarsson vice director borghildur erlingsd ttir board chair services international search and examination invalidity validty searches novelty searches clearance searches fto searches sequence searches landscape searches patent watch services number of employees 8 150 examiners from dkpto and nipo website www.npi.int the nordic patent institute npi is an intergovernmental organisation established by the governments of denmark iceland and norway . 1 it is based in taastrup denmark . 2 since january 1 2008 the institute acts as patent cooperation treaty pct authority . 1 as of may 1 2013 it is with the european patent office and the swedish patent and registration office one of the three international searching authorities isa and international preliminary examining authorities ipea available for international applications filed with the receiving offices of denmark iceland norway and sweden . 3 4 5 6 7 it also carries out supplementary international searches in danish english icelandic norwegian and swedish . 8 its two letter code is xn . 3 nordic patent institute also performs patent search and analysis on a commercial basis for companies and ip law firms . 9 see also edit danish patent and trademark office norwegian industrial property office visegrad patent institute references edit a b history of the nordic patent institute on the official website . consulted on july 4 2013 . contacts page of the nordic patent institute on the official website . consulted on july 4 2013 . a b agreement between the nordic patent institute and the international bureau of the world intellectual property organization as in force from may 1 2013 . consulted on july 4 2013 . pct applicant s guide international phase annex c danish patent and trademark office pdf . wipo.int . wipo . 10 january 2013 . retrieved july 4 2013 . pct applicant s guide international phase annex c icelandic patent office pdf . wipo.int . wipo . 1 july 2013 . retrieved july 4 2013 . pct applicant s guide international phase annex c swedish patent and registration office pdf . wipo.int . wipo . 17 january 2013 . retrieved july 4 2013 . pct applicant s guide international phase annex c norwegian industrial property office pdf . wipo.int . wipo . 23 may 2013 . retrieved july 4 2013 . pct applicant s guide international phase annex sisa nordic patent institute pdf . wipo.int . wipo . 1 may 2013 . retrieved july 4 2013 . patent search services of the nordic patent institute on the official website . consulted on august 13 2014 . external links edit nordic patent institute nordic patent institute on the danish patent and trademark office web site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nordic patent institute & oldid 724680715 categories patent officesinternational searching and preliminary examining authorities navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 10 june 2016 at 20 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view