The Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle or OAPI (English: African Intellectual Property Organization) 
The African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) was created by the Bangui Agreement on March 2, 1977 and came into force on February 8, 1982. A revised Bangui Agreement came into force on February 28, 2002. The current members of OAPI are: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Comoros, the Congo, Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, the Niger, Senegal, and Togo. While its member states are Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) contracting states, they must be designated for a regional patent through OAPI (that is the "national route" via the PCT has been closed). Its member states are also members of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.

•Please note that it is not possible to file in any of the aforementioned member states separately.
•Multi-Class Jurisdiction, but separate applications are required where goods and services are covered. (OAPI does not allow the filing of goods and services on a single application, as such two applications will be required to file goods and service Mark.