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The technology and patents behind the Paralympic Winter Games
The recent Paralympic Winter Games demonstrated notable advances in parasport technology. These innovations enhance competition and excitement and deliver benefits beyond the Games themselves.
Carbon One: long-lasting battery technology
Meet Carbon One, the Chinese climate-tech startup whose new battery technology could make your smartphone or electric car run for days.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Paralympian Rory Cooper drives innovation for people with disabilities
Rory Cooper, a Paralympian and a serial inventor, is committed to improving the quality of life and participation of people with disabilities through engineering and technology. Find out about his pioneering work and helps ensure his inventions reach the market and help people.
Genetic scissors: at the cutting-edge of life
The gene-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9, is one of the most important scientific developments so far this century. In October 2020, the two scientists responsible for developing it, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. What is the transformative potential of CRISPR technology and what issues is it raising?
Turkmen inventors tackle water scarcity
In countries like Turkmenistan with large expanses of arid land, agricultural development is held back by high levels of soil salinity and acute shortages of fresh water. Turkmen inventors have come up with a range of innovative technologies to tackle soil salinity and optimize management of freshwater.
Introducing WIPO PROOF: an interview with Francis Gurry
WIPO Director General Francis Gurry on WIPO PROOF, the latest in the Organization’s suite of IP business services.
The Artificial Inventor Project
Is an inventor always human? Professor Ryan Abbott considers some of the challenges that AI is posing for the patent system.
Belarus strengthens its IP system to promote innovation and economic growth
What the Government of Belarus is doing to develop its national innovation ecosystem?
GII 2019: Creating healthy lives – the future of medical innovation
The recently launched 2019 edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) reveals the latest global ranking of countries on their innovation performance. It also explores the future of medical innovation. WIPO’s Sacha-Wunsch-Vincent, a co-editor of the report, discusses some of its key findings.
Elaphe: driving the development of electric vehicles
Gorazd Gotovac, Chief Technology Officer of Elaphe Propulsion Technologies, a Slovenian company based in Lubljana, talks about the company’s pioneering in-wheel motor technology and the role that innovation and intellectual property plays in its business strategy.
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