Global awareness and trust in intellectual property (IP) systems has reached new heights globally, according to WIPO Pulse 2025, the world's most comprehensive survey of IP perception and awareness.
Innovators and designers filed record-setting levels of applications for the intellectual property rights that protect their work in 2024, while demand for the trademarks that promote brands stabilized, according to WIPO’s World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI) report.
The World Intellectual Property Organization today marked the 100th anniversary of its international design system, celebrating a century of iconic designs that combine utility and beauty.
The Government of Brazil has made a voluntary contribution of BRL1,500,000 (approx. 244,000 Swiss Francs) for WIPO-administered capacity building activities to support the growth of IP use by innovators and creators use across Latin America, the Caribbean and Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa.
Switzerland, Sweden, the United States of America (US), the Republic of Korea and Singapore top the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025 ranking, followed by the United Kingdom, Finland, Netherlands, Denmark and China, which breaks into the top 10 for the first time. Meantime, slowing growth in innovation investments is darkening the innovation forecast, the report found.
The addition of venture capital (VC) deal activity as a new metric in this year's WIPO Global Innovation Index (GII) Cluster study has reshaped the ranking with Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou overtaking Tokyo-Yokohama to claim the top spot and San Jose-San Francisco moving up three places to third position.
Ten SMEs and startups are the winners of this year’s WIPO Global Awards, with products including antibody therapeutics, sign-to-speech gloves, next-generation memory chips and sustainable protein fermentation—breakthroughs that reflect the transformative power of intellectual property (IP) in improving lives, advancing technology, and building more sustainable communities.
Investment in intangible assets such as data, software, brands and other intellectual property-backed assets grew three times faster in 2024 than investment in physical assets such as machinery and buildings, which has languished amid high interest rates and subdued economic recovery, according to new data from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Italy’s Luiss Business School.
Director General Daren Tang welcomed the biggest-ever contingent of delegates to a WIPO Assemblies meeting on Tuesday, calling for collective action to ensure that the global intellectual property (IP) ecosystem continues to evolve in supporting the world’s innovators and creators.
Pop music continues to dominate global charts while reggaeton and K-pop are gaining fans among the ranks of the most-popular musical genres, according to new WIPO data released to mark World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, which is commemorated each April 26.