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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.
Publication year: 2026
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.
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.
Hague Yearly Review 2026 - Executive Summary
International Registration of Industrial Designs
This executive brief identifies key trends in the use of the WIPO-administered Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs.
Learning Machines
An introduction to AI and IP for small and medium-sized enterprises
This guide covers key AI concepts including machine learning, neural networks, and generative AI, exploring their relationship with intellectual property rights. It compares international approaches while offering small businesses practical advice on protecting AI systems, using copyrighted material for AI training, and determining whether AI-generated outputs qualify for legal protection.
AI-enabled Health Innovation and IP
From idea to impact
This guide covers key themes in AI-enabled healthcare: intellectual property, commercialization, health data governance and standards, and regulatory pathways. It aims to help innovators navigate the decisions needed to turn AI-driven health solutions into real-world impact.
TISCs Report 2025
Building strong frameworks for innovation support
This annual report of Technology and Innovation Support Centers (TISCs) highlights the main developments and milestones in 2025, with a focus on how TISCs in 94 countries continued to expand their services to meet the needs of local innovators, and how WIPO supports them with new resources.