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, 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, 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, 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 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 …
Geneva, July 6, 2023 PR/2023/903 World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Daren Tang opened the WIPO Assemblies by outlining the Organization’s growing on-the-ground impact, while calling on delegates to continue working together on two …
Lisbon, May 30, 2023 PR/2023/902 Intellectual property (IP) tools that underpin the global innovation ecosystem will play a critical role in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the U.N. roadmap for a better and more sustainable …
Geneva, April 26, 2023 PR/2023/901 Women account for only around one in five designers behind the look and feel of products from simple packaging to mobile phones and automotive exteriors, according to new WIPO data released on World Intellectual Property …
Geneva, April 20, 2023 PR/2023/900 Innovators around the world have filed thousands of patent applications for new technologies to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, with the vast majority of the envisioned products related to therapies to help stricken …
Geneva, February 28, 2023 PR/2023/899 Demand for patent protection continued to grow in 2022, with innovators in China, the United States, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Germany leading in filings under WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) which …
Geneva, January 17, 2023 PR/2022/898 WIPO has opened the 2023 edition of its Global Awards program, seeking small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) candidates from around the world that use intellectual property (IP)-backed innovation and creativity in …
