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Apr 13, 2015 World IP Day 2015 celebrates music. See eight inventions to link listeners and tunes in years to come.

Mar 10, 2015 To mark International Women’s Day this year, users of WIPO’s eTISC social-networking platform for innovators pay tribute to women around the world who are developing creative technologies to solve problems.

Feb 20, 2015 Experts probed the transfer of technology and technical know-how to lesser-developed regions.

Feb 4, 2015 WIPO Re:Search partner BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH) brokered 38 new agreements in 2014 - more than double the original target for the year.

Jan 19, 2015 Increasing focus on medical and pharmaceutical advancements, rather than food.

Jan 16, 2015 The first anniversary of a new online marketplace promoting innovation, diffusion of green technologies.

Jan 13, 2015 Maryanne Diamond calls in a TEDx talk for government action on a treaty designed to help provide visually impaired people with specially adapted books.

Oct 23, 2014 Executives from Google, Intel and Microsoft speak on challenges facing IP and business innovation.

Oct 8, 2014 One inventor is working for healthier hearts in Africa’s remote regions.

Sep 8, 2014 “Build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door,” goes the saying. Below are images from a half-dozen international patent applications filed in recent years by various inventors who have taken up the challenge.