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WIPO/PUB/943/2022

WIPO IP Facts and Figures 2022

An overview of intellectual property activity based on the latest available year of complete statistics.

Publication year: 2022

WIPO/PUB/901/2024/EXEC-SUMMARY

Patent Cooperation Treaty Yearly Review 2024 - Executive Summary

The International Patent System

This executive brief identifies the key trends in the use of the WIPO-administered Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and provides a summary of the statistics reported in the PCT Yearly Review 2024.

Publication year: 2024

WIPO/PUB/RN2023-31

Metaverse

WIPO Conversation, IP and Frontier Technologies

The metaverse, a borderless, virtual world, heralds the Internet's next evolution and is poised to reshape work, play, and more. As technology intertwines with daily life, IP plays a pivotal role in protecting innovations and creations essential for the metaverse, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality technologies, digital content, and virtual business models.

Publication year: 2024

WIPO/PUB/901/2024

Patent Cooperation Treaty Yearly Review – 2024

The International Patent System

Comprehensive facts, figures and analysis of the international patent system.

Publication year: 2024

WIPO/PUB/274/2024

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)

Regulations under the PCT (as in force from July 1, 2024)

The Patent Cooperation Treaty makes it possible to seek patent protection for an invention simultaneously in each of a large number of countries by filing an "international" patent application. Such an application may be filed by anyone who is a national or a resident of a Contracting State.

Publication year: 2024

WIPO/PUB/1075/23

COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics

Insights into related patenting activity throughout the pandemic - Patent Landscape Reports

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic there have been remarkable research and innovation efforts to fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 disease. This report provides observations based on a comprehensive review of the patenting activity that took place in the field of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics and builds on the insights discussed in the first WIPO COVID-19 Patent Landscape Report published in March 2022.

Publication year: 2023

WIPO/GUIDE/IPC/2023

Guide to the International Patent Classification (2023)

This Guide provides information on the objectives, history and reform of the International Patent Classification (IPC) as well as assistance in the use of the IPC.

Publication year: 2023

WIPO/PUB/DS/GENDER/2023

The Global Gender Gap in Innovation and Creativity: An International Comparison of the Gender Gap in Global Patenting over Two Decades

WIPO Development Studies

This report analyzes women's participation in international patent applications between 1999 and 2020 and finds that women are involved in only 23% of all applications, representing 13% of all inventors listed. Women's participation in patenting varies across regions, sectors, and industries, with higher representation in biotechnology, food chemistry, and pharmaceuticals, and lower in mechanical engineering. Women inventors are more prevalent in academia than in the private sector, and typically work in mostly-male teams or alone. Achieving gender parity will require significant effort, with an estimated target year of 2061 based on current trends.

Publication year: 2023

WIPO/PUB/1077/23

Patent Landscape Report

Production of titanium and titanium dioxide from ilmenite and related applications

This report provides a landscape of the patent activity on the process of extracting titanium dioxide or titanium metal from ilmenite ore. In addition, a section on the industrial applications of titanium dioxide and titanium metal focuses on selected applications, such as ceramics, medical technology, electrodes for batteries, cosmetics, coatings and water treatment. This WIPO Patent Landscape Report aims to help policy and decision makers identify opportunities for ilmenite processing technologies and applications.

Publication year: 2023

WIPO/PUB/ECONSTAT/WP/73

COVID-19, Innovative Firms and Resilience

Economic Research Working Paper No. 73

This paper explores the empirical association between patents and various indicators of firm resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic with worldwide firm-level data from manufacturing industries. The study shows that patent-intensive firms have a reduced probability of exit, in particular if they are larger and if engaging with complementary investments in R&D and other intangibles. Additional estimates show that firm productivity has been an important transmission channel. Taken together, the results presented in the paper offer evidence-based findings pointing to patents as an important potential factor contributing to firm resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Policy insights are discussed.

Publication year: 2023