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Green-nickel extraction: Baniql's IP scaling strategy
Baniql, the climate-tech startup using IP to scale up its climate technologies. Discover how its patent strategy helped raise millions for breakthrough green tech.
FRAND licensing for SMEs: dancing with elephants in the world of SEPs
If you want to know how to get better at making FRANDs in the SEP ecosystem as a small player, here are our takeaways from the WIPO symposium. Care to dance?
Call for submissions to WIPO Magazine on Sports and IP
We are excited to announce an open call for pitches for the next special issue of WIPO Magazine. This edition will explore the diverse intellectual property (IP) issues that affect the world of sports.
Nobel Prize 2025: the 200+ PCT applications behind the breakthroughs
The 2025 Nobel laureates were applying for patents long before this year’s recognition. Meet the inventors reshaping atmospheric water harvesting, quantum physics and our understanding of immune function.
Examining patents, trademarks & designs: the art of IP examiners
Assessing patent, trademark, geographical indication and design applications is the skilled work of IP examiners. Discover the critical role they play in the IP system.
Tantrum pending: how one father took his pacifier from patent to market – and weaned his daughter off her dummy
The pacifier is a near-universal object that was first patented more than a century ago. So, what could there be left to reinvent? A young father from Singapore may have the answer.
Call for submissions to WIPO Magazine on Music and IP
We are excited to announce an open call for pitches for a special issue of the WIPO Magazine. This edition will explore the diverse intellectual property (IP) issues that affect the vibrant global music industry and local scenes.
A FRAND in need: why establishing standardized technologies is so complicated
Wi-Fi, 5G and Bluetooth are part of our everyday lives. But implementing such standards is a process fraught with IP challenges. In the push and pull between patent holders and product developers, everyone feels a little like Snoopy.
How Medtech is Bringing Affordable Cancer Care to Rural Communities in Cameroon
Too few women are screened for cancer in rural communities and medtech can bridge these gaps. Read how GIC Space provides breast and cervical cancer screenings to thousands of women via their flagship project.
Closing the Gender Gap in Patents Across Latin America
The Global Intellectual Property Alliance is tackling the prevalent gender gap within the IP sector. Women inventors still account for less than a quarter of patent applications. So, in a busy first year, GLIPA teamed up with the Mexican think tank CAIINNO to better understand the gender IP gap in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
The Inventor’s Patent Academy: moving the dial on diversity
In 2022, Invent Together and Qualcomm joined ranks to launch The Inventor’s Patent Academy, a free online learning platform to help inventors from underrepresented groups better navigate their patenting journey.
How Patent Information Can Help Spot Technology Gaps and Catalyze Economic Development
Analyzing patent data can uncover technologies with low patenting activity that could be spaces for future innovation
Patent Office Sustainability and the Role of Artificial Intelligence
To improve processing times, a number of patent offices are turning to AI-powered solutions to help them tackle the rising volume and complexity of patent applications.
Eco Panplas: better recycling of lubricant containers
Find out how the award-winning solution developed by Eco Panplas, a small Brazilian company is helping to make the recycling of machine lubricant containers cleaner, safer and more cost-effective.
Shenzhen Shokz: Bone conduction technology for a new listening experience
Pioneering bone conduction technology developed by Shenzhen Shotz offers users a new listening experience. Find out how the company’s commitment to innovation and its robust IP strategy are enabling it to thrive.
How the boy band BTS is using IP to build its legacy
The Korean boy band, BTS, is one of the most successful groups of all time. Find out how the band is leveraging its IP rights to build a fun-filled universe of music and content that offers fans multiple ways to engage.
Now’s the time for young people to switch on to intellectual property
WIPO’s Youth Engagement Team highlights the relevance of intellectual property to young people in their drive to build a better future and points to some of the challenges ahead, as WIPO ramps up its youth engagement activities.
Digital influencers herald a new era of branding
Digital influencers, or virtual humans, are the latest trend in social media marketing. Find out how the avant-garde Japanese start-up Aww Inc. is changing behaviors and powering tomorrow’s brands with its newly minted virtual humans.
Turkmen inventor finds new cost-saving ways to recycle rubber and plastic waste
Recognizing the pressing need to tackle environmental pollution from rubber and plastic waste, Rizayev Eldar Guseynovich, a young Turkmen entrepreneur, is developing new ways to transform garbage into a a range economically useful products.
In the Courts: Australian Court finds AI systems can be “inventors”
In a world first, a judge of the Federal Court of Australia has found that artificial intelligence is capable of being an “inventor” for the purposes of the Australian patent regime. Find out more about Justice Beach’s decision.
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