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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.
Publication year: 2026
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.
Country Perspectives: Spain's Journey
This report in the Unlocking IP-backed Financing Series examines the IP finance landscape in Spain and identifies possible actions for mainstreaming IP assets as collateral in financing transactions.
Patent Trends Update in GenAI
This WIPO Technology SPARK report provides an updated snapshot of global patenting activity in GenAI, building on the 2024 WIPO Patent Landscape Report on Generative Artificial Intelligence.
World Intangible Investment Highlights 2026
Better Data for Better Business and Policy
Co-published annually by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Luiss Business School (LBS), this third edition of the World Intangible Investment Highlights presents the latest cross-country statistics on investment in intangible assets such as research and development, software, data, design, brands and organizational know-how. The report covers 29 high- and middle-income economies, including, for the first time, Canada and the Philippines. Drawing on data from the Global INTAN-Invest Database (July 2026 release), this report shows that global intangible investment surpassed USD 10 trillion in 2025, and has been growing more than three times faster than tangible investment since 2008.
The WIPO Academy Portfolio
Global IP Education, Training and Skills Development 2026
This Portfolio serves as a catalogue of all the training opportunities to be offered by the WIPO Academy in 2026 and outlines the content of each course.
Patent Cooperation Treaty Yearly Review 2026 - 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 2026.
Patent Cooperation Treaty Yearly Review – 2026
Comprehensive facts, figures and analysis of the international patent system.