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Judicial Structures and Procedural Rules for IP Disputes: A Comparative Report
Drawing on the law and practice of eleven jurisdictions, this report provides an overview of judicial structural options, the types and roles of judges and court-appointed experts, IP specific procedures, and related policy considerations. The report offers objective, practical insights to support policymakers and judiciaries considering reform of IP dispute resolution systems.
Publication year: 2026
Embedded Collective Governance and Firm Strategy: The Case of New Zealand's Māori Advisory Committee
Economic Research Working Paper No. 101
Firms increasingly build competitive advantage on cultural resources whose value derives from collective meaning, yet existing institutions either remove those symbols from the market or fail to protect them in time. We study the concept of embedded collective governance (ECG) for the use of traditional cultural expression: a governance form that embeds culturally-informed community review directly within market access institutions. We argue that ECG operates through two channels. Screening regulates entry at the registration gate. Certification rewards cultural alignment at the renewal margin, generating a premium for trademarks that survive culturally informed community review. We test ECG at the trademark level and the portfolio level using New Zealand's 2003 Trademarks Act, which placed a Māori Advisory Committee (MAC) within the trademark system. Results confirm both channels: Māori related trademarks are less likely to be registered and expire in New Zealand relative to abroad. At the trademark level, effects concentrate where commercial incentives are strongest. These results carry a broader policy implication: integrating culturally-informed community review with the state's gatekeeping process can help align firm incentives with community interests without removing cultural resources from the market.
Women, Innovation and Impact
Illustrating the global progress of WIPO's first IP and Gender Action Plan
The “Women, Innovation and Impact” documents three years of implementation of the IP and Gender Action Plan (IPGAP), WIPO's first strategy on IP in support of women and girls. It compiles stories under each of the IPGAP's three interconnected areas: helping governments integrate considerations for women into IP policy, legislation, and institutional practice; building the evidence base that makes the case for progress through data collection and research; and delivering direct support to women entrepreneurs, innovators, and creators through IP strategy, business development, and economic empowerment programs. The stories are a representative selection, chosen to reflect the breadth of achievements across regions, sectors, and areas of work, while underlining the remaining work. Taken together, this resource constitutes a call for more urgent and ambitious action to ensure that women's contributions are represented more fully in the global IP ecosystem.
WIPO IPC-Green Technology Concordance
A Harmonized Classification Methodology
This paper introduces the World Intellectual Property Organization's Green Technology Inventory for Statistical Use (WIPO–GTIS), a new harmonized methodology for classifying green technologies. Developed through a systematic, consensus-based process, it relies solely on an IPC–Green Technology Concordance Table, validated through AI-assisted quality control, and comprises five sectors and 36 technology fields mapped to specific IPC codes. The paper reviews and compares existing classification systems (CNIPA, EPO, JPO, OECD and WIPO's IPC Green Inventory); presents the WIPO–GTIS methodology and taxonomy; demonstrates its application using global patent data to reveal trends in green technology innovation and specialization; and discusses the classification's limitations and opportunities for future refinement.
Patenting Healthcare-related Inventions: A Guide for IP advisers and managers
Patenting Healthcare-related Inventions provides a reference document for essential stakeholders involved in patenting innovation within the life sciences sector, particularly within the technical fields of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.
Global Innovation Index 2026
Executive Version
The Executive Version of the Global Innovation Index 2026 provides key highlights and results presented in the full report. The GII 2026 reveals who is leading in global innovation, ranking the innovation performance of about 140 economies, showcasing their innovation strengths and weaknesses and identifies the list of the world's top 100 innovation clusters.
Global Innovation Index 2026: Powering entrepreneurs at the frontier of science
The Global Innovation Index (GII) takes the pulse of innovation, offering a unique lens through which to examine how economic, technological, and regulatory forces are influencing global innovation and national innovation performance. The thematic focus of the GII 2026, "Powering Entrepreneurs at the Frontier of Science", explores how to build ecosystems that translate scientific breakthroughs into deep science startups and spinouts that scale real-world solutions, in particular in fields such as advanced materials, life sciences, quantum computing, space and transportation.
FRAND Economics
Valuation Methods in Licensing Standard Essential Patents
This economic report highlights how structured valuation approaches can contribute to greater clarity, ensure objectivity, facilitate licensing negotiations as well as dispute resolution, and support balanced incentives for both innovation and implementation in the area of standardized technologies. The report examines how fair, reasonable, and non discriminatory (FRAND) terms for standard essential patent (SEP) licensing can be determined.
Country Perspectives: Colombia's Journey
Colombia's Journey in the "Unlocking IP-backed Financing Series" showcases how the country has built a modern secured transactions framework, explicitly enabling businesses to use their trademarks, software, patents, and other IP rights as collateral to access credit. Drawing on a detailed analysis of national collateral registry data, the report reveals how companies, from multinational pharmaceutical firms leveraging cross-border trademark portfolios to technology startups pledging their proprietary software platforms, are already turning their intangible assets into financing opportunities.
Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs
Regulations (as in force on July 1, 2026) and Administrative Instructions (as in force on July 17, 2025)
The Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs provides a practical business solution for registering up to 100 designs in any of its contracting parties, through the filing of a single international application with WIPO. Management of the resulting international registration is a single-step procedure. The Hague Agreement governs the Hague System.