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New – Update on Covid-19
Find out what's happening at WIPO and get background information on intellectual property (IP) issues.
New – Update on Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is severely pressuring a long-building rise in worldwide innovation, likely hindering some innovative activities while catalyzing ingenuity elsewhere, according to the GII 2020, whose annual ranking is topped by Switzerland, Sweden, the U.S., the U.K. and the Netherlands.
Relying on millions of patent and scientific publication records, this edition documents how the geography of innovation has evolved over the past few decades.
WIPO’s "Technology Trends" Study Probes Artificial Intelligence.
Worldwide trademark and industrial design-creation activity rose in 2019 even as the number of global patent applications dipped slightly, WIPO's benchmark World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI) report showed.
WIPO will unveil its publishing survey during the world-renowned annual trade fair in a first step for the new collaboration.
WIPO's newest treaty helps hundreds of millions of people living with visual impairments around the world.
Demand for WIPO's global IP services reached record heights in 2019 amid another year of robust growth in treaty-adherence activity and the Organization's revenue base.
Which famous musicians are also listed as inventors on international patent applications filed via WIPO?
The WIPO GREEN online marketplace has now surpassed 3,000 climate-friendly technologies entries in a milestone for the effort to connect seekers and owners of green technologies.