WIPO’s CLIP today expands beyond music to cover visual arts, offering painters, sculptors, illustrators, photographers, muralists and other visual artists practical information on how their intellectual property rights can help them protect, share, and monetize their work.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today named Charleroi (Belgium), Liverpool (United Kingdom) and Shanghai (China) as the first winners of its “City of Innovation” awards program that recognizes cities’ commitments to advancing innovation and creativity in their communities.
Switzerland, Sweden, the US, the Republic of Korea and Singapore are the world’s most-innovative economies, according to WIPO’s Global Innovation Index 2026, which also shows that AI is driving a rebound in innovation investments.
Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou, Tokyo-Yokohama, San Jose-San Francisco, Beijing and Seoul are the world’s five biggest “GII Innovation Clusters,” or concentrations of innovative activity identified by WIPO through the analysis of international patent filings, scientific publications and venture capital deals.
The generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) patent landscape has reached a new milestone, with more new patents published in 2024 and 2025 than in the entire preceding ten years combined, according to new data published today by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today announced the 11 winners of the WIPO Global Award 2026, celebrating companies that demonstrated excellence in using intellectual property (IP) to bring to market products including drugs to regenerate lung tissue, semiconductors that cut energy loss, AI-guided crop spraying devices and helmet sensors promoting athletes’ brain health.
Investment in intangible assets crossed the USD 10 trillion mark for the first time in 2025, with the United States alone accounting for nearly half of the total, as investments in software, data, brands and other intellectual property-backed assets rose even as spending on machinery and buildings lagged under tight financing conditions and economic uncertainty.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today appointed Her Royal Highness Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana Rajakanya of the Kingdom of Thailand as WIPO Ambassador for Fashion and Design, recognizing Her Royal Highness’s outstanding contributions to creativity, innovation and the strategic use of intellectual property (IP).
Golf, swimming and racket sports are the most patent-intensive areas of the sports industry, where use of intellectual property (IP) is rising at above-average rates, according to a new World Intellectual Property Organization report released to mark World IP Day.
The Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today appointed Daren Tang to a second six-year term of office as Director General of the Organization.