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WIPO Press Releases
- WIPO Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Design Law Treaty Opens in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 11 November, 2024Delegates from WIPO’s member states opened on November 11, 2024 the final stage of negotiations on a proposed treaty that will support designers around the world in seeking protection for their designs, with Director General Daren Tang calling on negotiators to be creative in finding areas of convergence to finalize the treaty.
- World Intellectual Property Indicators Report: Global Patent Filings Reach Record High in 2023 7 November, 2024Global patenting activity reached new heights in 2023 as applications surpassed 3.5 million for the first time, marking the fourth consecutive year of growth despite a challenging macroeconomic environment, according to WIPO’s annual World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI) report.
- Saudi Arabia to Host WIPO Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Design Law Treaty 6 November, 2024WIPO member state delegates will convene from November 11-22, 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the final leg of negotiations on a proposed treaty that will support designers the world over in seeking protection for their designs.
- Global Innovation Index 2024: Switzerland, Sweden, US, Singapore, UK Top Ranking; China, Türkiye, India, Viet Nam, Philippines Among Fastest 10-Year Risers; Dark Clouds for Innovation Investments 12 September, 2024Switzerland, Sweden, the United States, Singapore and the United Kingdom are the world’s most-innovative economies, while China, Türkiye, India, Viet Nam and the Philippines are the fastest 10-year climbers, according to WIPO’s Global Innovation Index (GII) 2024, which shows a softening in venture capital activity, R&D funding and other investment indicators.
- GII Science and Technology Clusters 2024: Tokyo-Yokohama and Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou Top the Ranking; Emerging Economies Make their Move 27 August, 2024China and the United States (US) are home to the world’s largest science and technology (S&T) clusters, with shifts among the top 100 showing especially fast growth of innovative activity in certain emerging economies, according to an early release from the 2024 edition of WIPO’s Global Innovation Index (GII).
- WIPO Global Awards 2024: Celebrating World-Changing Innovations in Health, Climate Tech, and Advanced Technology 12 July, 2024Nine 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.
- WIPO Director General Tang Opens Assemblies with Call for Continued Consensus Among Delegates 9 July, 2024WIPO 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 and the global intellectual property (IP) ecosystem.
- China-Based Inventors Filing Most GenAI Patents, WIPO Data Shows 3 July, 2024China-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 locations, a new WIPO report shows.
- New WIPO Data Show Intangible Asset Investment Growing Fast, Spreading Globally 25 June, 2024Investment 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 seeing the most-intensive activity and India trending upward, according to new data from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
- WIPO Member States Adopt Historic New Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge 24 May, 2024WIPO 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 negotiations.