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Overview

The mandate of the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) is the registration of companies, cooperatives and intellectual property rights and maintenance of such information including those of close corporations. Related services include the disclosure of such information, compliance monitoring and enforcement of obligations with the Acts under CIPC’s administration as well as dispute resolution arising out of infringements to these rights.

CIPC digitally records almost all information it receives, and makes this available to the public through its own website and through the CIPC RESTful API. Being RESTful, each record of information is assigned a globally unique URI, and the operations available on each resource are directly mapped to HTTP verbs. Data can therefore be easily consumed by issuing simple GET requests on the required resource URI.