Geneva, July 12, 2024 PR/2024/923 Nine SMEs and startups with products ranging from 3D-printed bone implants to waste sorting robots and AI-powered brain injury scanners are this year’s winners of the WIPO Global Awards. Launched in 2022, WIPO Global …
Geneva, July 9, 2024 PR/2024/922 WIPO Director General Daren Tang opened the WIPO’s Assemblies annual meetings with a call for delegates to work in a spirit of consensus and build on a recent diplomatic breakthrough in support of a transformation of WIPO …
Geneva, July 3, 2024 PR/2024/921 China-based inventors are filing the highest number of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) patents, far outpacing inventors in the US, Republic of Korea, Japan and India that comprise the rest of the top five …
Geneva, June 25, 2024 PR/2024/920 Investment in intangible assets like brands, designs, data and software has grown three times faster over the past 15 years than investment in physical assets like factories and machinery, with Sweden, the US and France …
Geneva, May 24, 2024 PR/2024/919 WIPO member states today approved a groundbreaking new Treaty related to intellectual property (IP), genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, marking a historic breakthrough that capped decades of …
Geneva, May 13, 2024 PR/2023/948 WIPO member state delegates officially launched historic final-stage negotiations on a proposed treaty relating to intellectual property, genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, with Director General Daren …
Geneva, May 7, 2024 PR/2024/917 WIPO member state delegates will convene May 13-24, 2024, at the Organization’s Geneva headquarters for the final leg of negotiations of a proposed treaty relating to intellectual property, genetic resources and traditional …
Geneva, May 2, 2024 PR/2024/916 A new WIPO report probes the intersection of human innovation, economic diversification and industrial policy and finds that the key to sustainable growth for countries is to focus policy making on developing local …
Geneva, April 25, 2024 PR/2024/915 World Intellectual Property Day 2024 is highlighting the critical importance of intellectual property (IP) in catalyzing the human innovation and creativity needed for achievement of the United Nations Sustainable …
Geneva, March 7, 2024 PR/2024/914 China-based Huawei Technologies, Samsung Electronics of the Republic of Korea and the U.S.’s Qualcomm were the world’s top users in 2023 of WIPO’s international patent system and innovators in India increased their patent …
Geneva, January 15, 2024 PR/2024/913 The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today opened its 2024 Global Awards competition, inviting applications from small businesses and startups that use intellectual property (IP) to drive enterprise …
Geneva, December 13, 2023 PR/2023/912 WIPO member states have agreed on the Organization’s Geneva headquarters as the site of the final leg of negotiations, from May 13-24, 2024, of a proposed treaty relating to intellectual property, genetic resources and …
Geneva, November 17, 2023 PR/2023/911 The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Music Rights Awareness Foundation today launched a new online platform to raise creators’ awareness of intellectual property (IP) rights and related …
Geneva, November 6, 2023 PR/2023/910 Go to: Patents | Trademarks | Industrial designs | Plant varieties | Geographical indications Global patenting activity soared to new records in 2022, fueled by Indian and Chinese innovators, but an uncertain economic …
Geneva, October 9, 2023 PR/2023/909 WIPO member states have approved Saudi Arabia’s capital city Riyadh as the host of a November 11-22, 2024, diplomatic conference to finalize negotiations of a proposed Design Law Treaty (DLT). The future treaty aims to …
Geneva, September 27, 2023 PR/2023/908 Switzerland, Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore are the world’s most innovative economies in 2023, according to WIPO’s Global Innovation Index (GII), as a group of middle-income economies have …
Geneva, September 14, 2023 PR/2023/906 Two thirds of people questioned in a new global survey have a positive perception of the role that intellectual property (IP) plays in their economies, but younger people still lag in understanding IP, according to …
Geneva, September 20, 2023 PR/2023/907 All of the world’s five biggest science and technology (S&T) clusters are now located in East Asia, with Tokyo-Yokohama leading the ranking and China emerging as the country with the greatest number of clusters, …
Geneva, July 17, 2023 PR/2023/905 Director General Daren Tang welcomed a donation of AUD50,000 by the Australian Government to WIPO’s Voluntary Fund for Accredited Indigenous and Local Communities. (WIPO/Berrod) The donation will go toward increasing the …
Geneva, July 11, 2023 PR/2023/904 The WIPO Global Awards program has announced the results of its 2023 competition, celebrating winners who have used intellectual property (IP) not just for business success, but also as catalyst for economic, social, and …
