BIRPI

Acronym	Definition
BIRPI	Bureaux Internationaux Reunis pour la Protection de la Propiete Intellectuelle (United International Bureaus for Protection of Intellectual Property)

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succeeded BIRPI after its formation in 1970 and still administers each

Finding the right tool for the job: adequate protection for research tool patents in a global market?

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY AS REVISED AT STOCKHOLM IN 1967 (BIRPI 1968).

The Eleventh Annual Honorable Helen Wilson Nies Memorial Lecture in intellectual property; rethinking the role of clinical trial data in international intellectual property law: the case for a public goods approach

In 1893, the bureaus overseeing the Berne Convention and the Paris Convention combined and formed an international organization called the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property ("BIRPI").

The winners and the losers: the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and its effects on developing countries

(2.) Professor Gervais defines four stages of development of international copyright conventions: the pre-1883 bilateral phase; the 1883-1971 BIRPI phase (so named for the Bureaux Internationaux Reunis pour la Protection de la Propriete Intellectuelle under which the Paris and Berne Conventions were administered); the 1971-1994 TRIPs phase, which included the signing of the 1971 Paris Act of the Berne Convention and the negotiation of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights; and the now current, post-1994 paradigmatic phase in which new technologies have new challenges.