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Country Perspectives: Canada's Journey
Canada's Journey in the "Unlocking IP-backed Financing Series" provides an overview of the IP finance landscape in Canada, highlighting its importance for SMEs. It explores the use and ownership of IP by Canadian businesses, as well as the regulatory and non-regulatory challenges affecting IP-backed financing. The report highlights Canada's experience in implementing dedicated IP-backed lending programs, which have provided significant funding to IP-rich firms since 2020. It also outlines government support for IP development and future plans to expand SME access to IP financing, fostering innovation and growth.
Año de publicación: 2025
WIPO IP Facts and Figures 2025
Drawn from the comprehensive World Intellectual Property Indicators 2025, this useful summary guide explains key trends and takeaways, illustrated throughout with intuitive data visualizations.
Año de publicación: 2025
Intellectual Property Adjudication in Sri Lanka
The Intellectual Property Benchbook Series is a set of practical manuals on IP law and procedure to assist judges in adjudicating IP cases appearing before them in their own courts, as well as for readers interested in learning about judicial adjudication of IP disputes across jurisdictions. This title in the series provides a guide to the judicial management of IP disputes at each stage of adjudication in Sri Lanka, with a particular focus on procedural aspects. This title was drafted by an experienced retired judge with the perspective of sharing good practices with judicial peers.
Año de publicación: 2025
Country Perspectives: Brazil's Journey
Brazil's Journey in the “Unlocking IP-backed Financing Series” outlines the main challenges in Brazil associated with using IP assets as collateral for financing, focusing on two critical areas: IP valuation and IP awareness. The discussion covers key advances in those areas and obstacles that remain. Finally, proposals are presented for projects and partnerships with other government agencies or the private sector to advance IP finance in Brazil.
Año de publicación: 2025
World Intellectual Property Indicators 2025
World Intellectual Property Indicators is an annual survey of intellectual property (IP) activity around the world undertaken by WIPO, the United Nations specialized agency for innovation and IP. This authoritative report analyzes IP activity around the globe. Drawing on 2024 filing, registration and renewals statistics from national and regional IP offices and WIPO, World Intellectual Property Indicators provides up-to-date information on patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs, microorganisms, plant variety protection and geographical indications.
Año de publicación: 2025
Green Technology Book
Solutions for confronting climate disasters – Executive Summary
How innovation can help transform disaster preparedness is at the forefront of this edition of the Green Technology Book. As climate-driven crises intensify, emerging technologies, such as AI, IoT, drones, satellites, and nature-based systems, are redefining how we protect lives and livelihoods. From flood forecasting to modular shelters, these adaptive solutions combine digital intelligence with disaster-ready infrastructure in an increasingly volatile climate.
Año de publicación: 2025
Green Technology Book
Solutions for confronting climate disasters
The Green Technology Book: Solutions for confronting climate disasters highlights how innovation is transforming disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. As climate-driven crises intensify, emerging technologies, such as AI, IoT, drones, satellites, and nature-based systems, are redefining how we protect lives and livelihoods. From flood forecasting to modular shelters, these adaptive solutions combine digital intelligence with disaster-ready infrastructure in an increasingly volatile climate.
Año de publicación: 2025
Technologies for Mine Action
This WIPO Technology SPARK Report on Technologies for Mine Action provides an overview of global patenting trends in mine action technologies, focusing on detection, clearance, and personal protective equipment. The analysis reveals a shifting trend toward remote sensing technologies with growing interest in autonomous systems and artificial intelligence-based decision making. These developments support the industry-wide goal of enhancing mine action safety and efficiency by minimizing human exposure to dangerous conditions.
Año de publicación: 2025
A Century of Design Registration 1925–2025:
The Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs
Marking 100 years of the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs, this book traces its evolution from a European framework in 1925 to today's truly global system covering nearly 100 economies. Through data, infographics and a gallery of 100 registered designs, it highlights the System's adaptability, the shifting profile of applicants and the growing role of design in innovation, culture and industry.
Año de publicación: 2025
WIPO Pulse Report
Global intellectual property perception survey 2025
WIPO Pulse is a landmark survey documenting awareness of and attitudes toward intellectual property (IP) rights. Now in its second edition with significantly extended global reach, based on 35,500 interviews across 74 countries, the survey represents the broadest assessment of its kind and provides a snapshot of how individuals and communities worldwide think and feel about IP. WIPO Pulse 2025 covers the top-line findings of the survey and describes the research methodology used. The expanded scope enhances its value as a unique resource for policymakers, researchers, educators and others involved in promoting IP rights and raising IP awareness globally.
Año de publicación: 2025
Publicity Rights and Integrated IP Strategy
Economic Research Working Paper No.89
Rights of publicity” provide a degree of control over one's name, image, and likeness (NILs), and can have significant commercial value, especially with the advent of artificial intelligence and digital replicas. Although publicity rights have recently received substantial media and legislative attention, they have so far escaped the attention of economists. This article remedies that with the first empirical examination of publicity rights, using asynchronous changes in U.S. state laws to explore potentially welfare-improving economic incentives and the interaction of NIL protections with other intellectual property rights, thus laying the foundation for a new line of economic inquiry.
Año de publicación: 2025
Green Technology Book: Energy solutions for climate change in Asia and the Pacific
This special edition of the Green Technology Book for EXPO 2025, Osaka, Japan, features 200+ examples of energy technologies and solutions from the Asia-Pacific region, dedicated to the diffusion of innovative green technologies by connecting the technology seekers and providers.
Año de publicación: 2025
Moving IP Finance from the Margins to the Mainstream
This paper describes the potential of IP finance, the challenges it faces, and approaches of different countries to tackle them. It also outlines WIPO's initiatives to move IP finance from the margins to the mainstream.
Año de publicación: 2025
Strengthening Medical Technology Innovation Ecosystems to address Non-communicable Diseases in Least Developed Countries
A collaborative study by the UN Technology Bank, Medtronic and WIPO examines how the MedTech sector can tackle the rising burden of non-communicable diseases, which account for over 70% of global deaths. Through fieldwork in Bangladesh and Rwanda, researchers analyzed innovation culture, intellectual property systems, regulations, financing and policies to identify barriers and enablers of MedTech development in least developed countries (LDCs).
Año de publicación: 2025
Intellectual Property Valuation in Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals
Intellectual Property Valuation in Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals delves into advanced valuation methods such as risk-adjusted NPV and real options analysis, tailored to the unique dynamics of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. Using case study examples, the guide explores the multi-stage development process, providing tools to evaluate licensing, milestones and market exclusivity scenarios effectively.
Año de publicación: 2025
Sustainable Fashion Technologies: Stitching sustainability into style
This report shows how innovative green technologies can help the global fashion industry to manage and reduce environmental damage. Increasing interest from brands and investors, alongside new legislative frameworks, are creating avenues for a more sustainable resource management. Innovation and creativity can help advance a paradigm shift in textile manufacturing and production that results in a circular economy for fashion.
Año de publicación: 2025
Global Innovation Index 2025: Innovation at a Crossroads
The Global Innovation Index 2025 reveals innovation systems at a crossroads, where breakthrough technologies in AI and quantum computing advance rapidly while investment growth slows and collaborative models evolve to address global challenges. Tracking the most recent global innovation trends, the GII captures a moment of recalibration where R&D growth has slowed, venture capital activity has moderated with cautious early-stage funding, and patenting gains remain modest, even as collaboration grows through networked ecosystems and multi-stakeholder platforms.
Año de publicación: 2025
Global Innovation Index 2025
Executive Version
The Executive Version of the Global Innovation Index 2025 provides key highlights and results presented in the full report. The GII 2025 reveals who is leading in global innovation, ranking the innovation performance of 139 economies and highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. In addition, it identifies the world's top 100 science and technology clusters.
Año de publicación: 2025
Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks; Regulations; Administrative Instructions; Schedule of Fees.
The present publication contains the texts of the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (hereinafter referred to as the “Protocol”) (1989), as amended in 2006 and in 2007, the Regulations under the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, the Administrative Instructions for the Application of the Protocol and the Schedule of Fees.
Año de publicación: 2025
Intellectual Property Valuation Basics for Technology Transfer Professionals
This guide provides foundational knowledge and tools to apply practical valuation methods, empowering technology transfer offices to assess early-stage innovations effectively. It covers market, cost, and income approaches, emphasizing practical application even when data is limited or ambiguous. Throughout the guide, case study examples help users navigate each stage of the IP valuation process.
Año de publicación: 2025
Hague Yearly Review 2025 - 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.
Año de publicación: 2025
Patent Cooperation Treaty Yearly Review 2025 - 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 2025.
Año de publicación: 2025
Madrid Yearly Review 2025 – Executive Summary
International Registration of Marks
This executive brief identifies key trends in the use of the WIPO-administered Madrid System.
Año de publicación: 2025
WIPO Workforce 2025
June Edition
WIPO's workforce is the human capital of the Organization and its greatest asset. This brochure shows a detailed picture of staffing at WIPO in 2025.
Año de publicación: 2025
WIPO Magazine, Issue 1/2025
The WIPO Magazine explores intellectual property, creativity and innovation in action across the world.
Año de publicación: 2025
TISCs Report 2024
Building skills to support innovation
This annual report of Technology and Innovation Support Centers (TISCs) highlights the main developments and milestones in 2024, with a focus on how TISCs in 93 countries and technology transfer structures continued to expand their services to meet the needs of local innovators, and how WIPO supports them with new resources.
Año de publicación: 2025
World Intangible Investment Highlights
Better Data for Better Policy
Co-published annually by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in partnership with the Luiss Business School (LBS), this second edition of the World Intangible Investment Highlights (WIIH) reveals that intangible investment in the global economy has grown nearly four times faster than tangible investment since 2008, despite economic headwinds and business uncertainty. The World Intangible Investment Highlights 2025 and its underlying Global INTAN-Invest Database (July 2025) provide unprecedented statistics on cross-country investment—both annual and quarterly—spanning 27 high- and middle-income economies, with India added in 2024 and Brazil in the 2025 edition.
Año de publicación: 2025
WIPO Pathfinders Report
Exploring the futures of IP driven innovation and creativity
The WIPO Pathfinders Report synthesizes insights from over 45 interviews with prominent thought leaders and experts within the innovation and creation ecosystem, exploring how IP-driven innovation and creativity might evolve by 2034. Structured across four chapters, the report assists Member States and the IP community in understanding how current trends may shape the future landscape, providing a foundation for exploring various potential futures for the IP system in the medium to long term.
Año de publicación: 2025
Patent Cooperation Treaty Yearly Review – 2025
The International Patent System
Comprehensive facts, figures and analysis of the international patent system.
Año de publicación: 2025
A Primer on Technology Transfer in the Field of Biotechnology
This publication provides practical, user-friendly templates and recommended language for professionals in the biotechnology innovation ecosystem. It aims to help biotechnology innovation stakeholders understand the environment needed for sustainability, legal certainty and effective technology transfer in this sector, and the considerations involved in challenging issues such as the role of intellectual property (IP) in the creation, protection, commercialization and transfer of research outcomes from laboratories to public and private users. The Primer includes helpful templates as well as example agreements and clauses that have been utilized in successful biotechnology agreements.
Año de publicación: 2025
LDC Graduation Toolkit
Toolkit in patent and technology law for Member States graduation from least developed country status
This Toolkit assists national policymakers in identifying legal gaps which may need to be addressed upon graduating from LDC status in relation to the protection and enforcement of patents, layout designs of integrated circuits and trade secrets under the TRIPS Agreement and the applicable international framework. It also contains frequently asked questions and general guidance, and complements needs-assessment for LDC graduation support provided by WIPO.
Año de publicación: 2025
Hague Yearly Review 2025
International Registration of Industrial Designs
Comprehensive facts, figures and analysis of the international registration of industrial designs.
Año de publicación: 2025
Digital Access to Knowledge and Women in Science
Economic Research Working Paper No.88
Scientific progress relies on access to prior knowledge, yet costly access to academic literature can hinder researchers, particularly in marginalized positions of academia and developing economies. This paper examines the impact of free or lower-cost access to scientific literature on gender representation in research. Leveraging the staggered adoption of the Hinari program, which provides digital access to health science research, we analyze its effects on women's participation in research production and academic publishing across more than 600 institutions in 80 countries.
Año de publicación: 2025
Madrid Yearly Review 2025
International Registration of Marks
Comprehensive facts, figures and analysis of the international registration of marks.
Año de publicación: 2025
Country Perspectives: Japan's Journey
Japan's Journey in the "Unlocking IP-backed Financing Series" presents an overview of how IP-backed financing is gaining traction as a strategy for many SMEs in Japan without fixed assets. To this end, government initiatives have been developed to educate IP owners, as well as financial institutions, on understanding IP assets and their critical role in driving businesses. This involves going beyond a quantitative approach and solely focusing on their value in the balance sheets but also complementing it with a qualitative assessment how the IP is driving businesses.
Año de publicación: 2025
Occupational Health and Safety
Patent Landscape Report
The WIPO Patent Landscape Report on Occupational Health and Safety provides an in-depth analysis of global patent trends in this field, with a focus on three key areas: accident prediction, detection and protection technologies. These innovations leverage advanced methods such as statistical analysis, machine learning, and real-time monitoring to improve workplace safety. The report highlights a rapidly evolving landscape shaped by technological progress, regulatory frameworks, and growing awareness of occupational hazards.
Año de publicación: 2025
WIPO Technology Trends Technical Annex: The Future of Transportation on Land
This technical annex to the WIPO Technology Trends Report on the Future of Transportation offers a deep-dive analysis of global patenting and emerging trends in land transportation affording comprehensive insights into innovations shaping the future of road and rail transport systems. It serves as a valuable resource for those stakeholders – including policymakers, industry leaders, researchers and innovators – seeking to understand the trajectory of technological advancements and their implications for the future of land transportation.
Año de publicación: 2025
WIPO Technology Trends Technical Annex: The Future of Transportation in Space
This technical annex to the WIPO Technology Trends Report on the Future of Transportation presents a detailed analysis of global patenting trends that highlight the latest technological developments within the space industry. Tailored for policymakers, industry leaders, researchers and innovators, it is designed as a strategic resource for understanding the trends shaping space transportation, examining the intersection of innovation, policy and market demand.
Año de publicación: 2025
WIPO Technology Trends Technical Annex: The Future of Transportation on the Sea
Through an examination of patent data, this technical annex to the WIPO Technology Trends Report on the Future of Transportation provides insights into innovations across a range of maritime technologies, and studies cutting-edge developments. Aimed at industry leaders, policymakers, researchers and innovators, this annex is designed to be a strategic resource for understanding the future of sea transportation and its critical role in global trade and sustainability initiatives.
Año de publicación: 2025
WIPO Technology Trends Technical Annex: The Future of Transportation in the Air
By examining extensive patent data, this technical annex to the WIPO Technology Trends Report on the Future of Transportation uncovers insights into the innovations transforming air transport and explores emerging technologies in the area. Designed as a comprehensive resource for industry stakeholders, policymakers, researchers and innovators, it offers valuable foresight into the future of aviation technology and its potential to meet demands for efficiency, safety and environmental sustainability in global air travel.
Año de publicación: 2025
Country Perspectives: The Journey of the Visegrad Group
In The Journey of the Visegrad Group (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia), intellectual property is gaining recognition as a key driver of financing. The region is actively promoting IP awareness, protection, and utilization in recognition of its role in driving economic growth and development. Efforts are being developed to integrate IP-backed financing into traditional financial systems, thus expanding opportunities for startups and SMEs. These initiatives provide a solid foundation for advancing and expanding IP-backed financing across the region.
Año de publicación: 2025
Guide to the International Patent Classification (2025)
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.
Año de publicación: 2025
The WIPO Academy Portfolio of Education, Training and Skills Development Programs 2025
This Portfolio serves as a catalogue of all the training opportunities to be offered by the WIPO Academy in 2025 and outlines the content of each course. It gives information to potential participants on eligibility criteria, application formalities, timelines, selection procedures, travel and other relevant necessary information.
Año de publicación: 2025
Gender Gap in Industrial Designs of Central European and Baltic States
WIPO Development Studies
This report examines women's participation in industrial design across Central European and Baltic States (CEBS). Over the past three decades, the number of women designers in the region has increased. Nevertheless, they remain underrepresented, particularly in machinery and arms manufacturing, while being more active in clothing, pharmaceuticals, and health-related design. Our projections estimate full equality could take up to 40 years, making gender parity in industrial design a long-term goal. Addressing industry-specific barriers will be crucial to fostering a more inclusive and innovative design sector in the CEBS region.
Año de publicación: 2025
WIPO Technology Trends: Future of Transportation
The WIPO Technology Trends report on the Future of Transportation dives into the transformative changes reshaping the transportation sector. The report, based on patent data and scientific literature data complemented by business information, policy, regulation and standards data looks at transportation technologies and trends across land, sea, air and space. It identifies four primary technology trend clusters: Sustainable Propulsion, Automation and Circularity, Communication and Security, and Human-Machine Interface technologies – representing the critical areas of innovation crucial to the future of transportation. The report also considers the current and future applications of technologies in the transportation sector.
Año de publicación: 2025
WIPO Technology Trends: Future of Transportation
Executive summary
The WIPO Technology Trends report on the Future of Transportation focuses on the sustainability and digitalization of the transport sector. It highlights key innovations across Sustainable Propulsion, Automation and Circularity, Communication and Security, and Human–Machine Interface. The report analyzes patent data and emphasizes the role of intellectual property in fostering technological progress and envisions transformative futures. By inspiring action, the report aims to drive the development of sustainable, efficient, and connected transportation systems aligned with the UN's 2030 Agenda.
Año de publicación: 2025
WIPO Good Practice Toolkit for Collective Management Organizations (The Toolkit)
A Bridge between Rightholders and Users
The WIPO Good Practice Toolkit for Collective Management Organizations (CMOs) brings together examples of legislation, regulation and codes of conduct in the area of collective management from around the world. Member states and other stakeholders may use relevant parts of the document to help them design an approach suitable for their particular context. Note - The Toolkit is not a normative document. The first version of the Toolkit was published in 2018. The current version was published in January 2025, and reflects the submissions received from WIPO Member States and other stakeholders throughout the consultation process in 2024.
Año de publicación: 2025
Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs
Regulations (as in force on January 1, 2025) / Administrative Instructions (as in force on January 1, 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.
Año de publicación: 2025
An International Guide to Patent Case Management for Judges
Produced with the support of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and the Berkeley Judicial Institute, this Guide highlights the progress achieved in patent case management in eleven patent-heavy jurisdictions. The Guide offers an overview of the patent system in each jurisdiction, including the role of patent offices in evaluating and deciding on patent validity, and the judicial structures responsible for resolving patent disputes. Thereafter chapters are structured on the different stages of patent litigation in civil infringement cases. Readers can create their own custom guide by selecting any combination of jurisdictions and topics covered in the Guide. Please see the custom guide link below or visit: https://www.wipo.int/about-patent-judicial-guide/en
Año de publicación: 2025
Securing Loans with Your IP Assets
Hands-on IP Finance
This guide assists businesses and intellectual property (IP) owners in leveraging IP to secure loans. It outlines how IP can support debt financing, prepares users for discussions with lenders, and provides insights into the lending process. Additionally, the guide addresses post-loan procedures. Throughout, practical checklists and templates equip businesses and IP owners to maximize the value of their intangible assets and facilitate favorable financing terms
Año de publicación: 2024
Are the best tunes played on the oldest fiddles? Distribution and digitization of recorded classical music
Economic Research Working Paper No.87
This research looks at the distributional effects of copyright when creative works are protected under multiple rights. It exploits a quasi-natural experiment and recent law changes introduced under EU Directive 77/2011 on the term of protection of copyright and related rights as well as variation in author death years. We examine the causal implications of copyright and related rights protection around music recordings vis-à-vis public domain status for the availability of classical music as physical and digital releases. Results suggest that public domain status of related rights favours the availability and re-releases of classical music in physical and digital formats. The emergence of music streaming services in EU member states and catalogue-wide licensing moderate effects over time. We however find little evidence that public domain status of author rights affects the distribution of classical music in digital or physical channels. We contemplate the implications of our results for intellectual property policy.
Año de publicación: 2024
Country Perspectives: Austria's Journey
Austria's Journey in the “Unlocking IP-backed Financing Series” gives an account of how Austria fosters growth and innovation on multiple fronts, from promoting research to supporting local businesses. With intellectual property recognized as a strong driver of commercial success, the country maintains a strong legal framework that supports its protection. Austrian innovators actively leverage IP assets for competitive advantage and market expansion. While IP-backed financing has yet to become mainstream in Austria's financial landscape, increased awareness and the growing venture capital market present promising pathways for its development.
Año de publicación: 2024
Green Technology Book
Energy solutions for climate change
Energy is at the forefront of WIPO's third edition of the Green Technology Book. This volume focuses on energy technologies, mitigation and adaptation by looking at solutions for households and communities in cities and rural areas, public spaces and infrastructure, water utilities and farming. The book also looks at options for increasing energy efficiency and introducing new energies in key service areas such health facilities, supermarkets and datacenters.
Año de publicación: 2024
WIPO IP Facts and Figures 2024
WIPO IP Facts and Figures 2024 gives an overview of annual activity across five types of industrial property: patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs, and geographical indications. Drawn from the comprehensive World Intellectual Property Indicators 2024, this useful summary guide explains key trends and takeaways, illustrated throughout with intuitive data visualizations.
Año de publicación: 2024
World Intellectual Property Indicators 2024
World Intellectual Property Indicators is the annual survey of intellectual property (IP) activity around the world carried out by WIPO, the United Nations specialized agency for innovation and IP. This authoritative report analyzes IP activity around the globe. Drawing on 2023 filing, registration and renewals statistics from national and regional IP offices and WIPO, World Intellectual Property Indicators covers patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs, microorganisms, plant variety protection and geographical indications.
Año de publicación: 2024
Global Innovation Index 2024, 17th Edition
Unlocking the Promise of Social Entrepreneurship
The GII 2024 reveals who is leading globally in innovation, ranking the innovation performance of 133 economies and highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. The thematic focus of the 2024 edition is social entrepreneurship. It looks at how a flurry of new ventures are finding innovative solutions directly addressing critical societal issues. Examples drawn from around the world showcase successful examples of social entrepreneurship, helping guide innovation policymakers and support schemes to better scale social entrepreneurship ventures for maximum systemic impact.
Año de publicación: 2024
Global Innovation Index 2024
Executive Version
The Executive Version of the Global Innovation Index 2024 provides key highlights and results presented in the full report. The GII 2024 reveals who is leading in global innovation, ranking the innovation performance of 133 economies and highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. In addition, it identifies the world's top 100 science and technology clusters.
Año de publicación: 2024
Agrifood
Patent Landscape Report
With the advent of innovative technologies, the Agrifood sector is undergoing a transformation which is pivotal in ensuring a sustainable food security system worldwide. These advances are set to revolutionize agricultural practices and food production, impacting economic, social, and environmental aspects. The WIPO Patent Landscape Report on Agrifood looks at the latest patent trends in Agrifood, with a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of the patent landscape in agricultural technology (AgriTech) and the food industry (FoodTech). The report also explores patents relating to the innovation and technological advancements in five case studies areas across the Agrifood sector.
Año de publicación: 2024
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.
Año de publicación: 2024
Madrid Yearly Review 2024 – Executive Summary
International Registration of Marks
This executive brief identifies key trends in the use of the WIPO-administered Madrid System.
Año de publicación: 2024
Hague Yearly Review 2024 - 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.
Año de publicación: 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.
Año de publicación: 2024
Models of Intellectual Property Governance and Administration
Models of Intellectual Property Governance and Administration documents and analyzes prevailing approaches, trends and emerging directions in IP governance and administration. This study will equip policymakers with valuable insights to support well-informed decisions in designing IP governance and administration frameworks, thereby unleashing the full potential of the intellectual property system for the benefit of society.
Año de publicación: 2024
Generative AI
WIPO Conversation, IP and Frontier Technologies
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to disrupt every industry and many parts of our lives – promising both competitive advantage and creative destruction. But how creative and imaginative is generative AI, what are the potential implications for human creators and how do we ensure that the IP system continues to foster innovation and creativity in the age of AI?
Año de publicación: 2024
WIPO Workforce 2024
June Edition
WIPO's workforce is the human capital of the Organization and its greatest asset. This brochure shows a detailed picture of staffing at WIPO in 2024.
Año de publicación: 2024
WIPO Guide to Trade Secrets and Innovation
In the dynamic and increasingly interconnected world of innovation and commerce, intellectual property (IP) protection plays a pivotal role in driving economic growth, fostering competition and promoting technological advancements. Among various forms of IP protection, trade secrets have emerged as a critical tool for businesses to safeguard valuable confidential information and to maintain a competitive edge in an increasingly global marketplace. The WIPO Guide to Trade Secrets and Innovation provides a global audience with a comprehensive but digestible strategic and legal overview of trade secrets in the modern innovation ecosystem.
Año de publicación: 2024
Generative AI: Navigating intellectual property
Generative AI: Navigating intellectual property outlines guiding principles and provides a checklist to assist organizations to understand the IP risks, ask the right questions and consider potential safeguards when adopting generative AI tools in their business.
Año de publicación: 2024
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.
Año de publicación: 2024
Enabling Innovation Measurement at the Sub-National Level
A WIPO toolkit
Enabling Innovation Measurement at the Sub-National Level is part of the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Intellectual Property (IP) and Innovation Ecosystems Sector (IES) response to supporting member states wishing to develop their own complementary and mutually reinforcing sub-national innovation indices. Drawing on the Global Innovation Index (GII) framework WIPO is proceeding in two ways: 1) organizing workshops on the exchange of best practices, and 2) providing this study on sub-national innovation indices.
Año de publicación: 2024
TISCs Report 2023
Cultivating expertise to empower local innovators
This annual report of Technology and Innovation Support Centers (TISCs) highlights the main developments and milestones in 2023, with a focus on how TISCs in 93 countries and technology transfer structures continued to expand their services to meet the needs of local innovators, and how WIPO supports them with new resources.
Año de publicación: 2024
Generative Artificial Intelligence
Patent Landscape Report
In this WIPO Patent Landscape Report on Generative AI, discover the latest patent trends for GenAI with a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of the GenAI patent landscape, alongside insights into its future applications and potential impact. The report explores patents relating to the different modes, models and industrial application areas of GenAI.
Año de publicación: 2024
World Intangible Investment Highlights
Better Data for Better Policy
World Intangible Investment Highlights reports together with underlying data from the Global INTAN-Invest Database offer novel, up-to-date cross-country, quarterly and annual measures of investment into intangible assets, including those not included in official statistics. The statistics cover a range of high-income and emerging economies.
Año de publicación: 2024
Closing Innovation and Intellectual Property Diversity Gaps: a Global Literature Review
Economic Research Working Paper No.86
Innovation is a driver of competitive advantage and economic growth, with patent rights playing a critical supporting role. However, differential access to patent rights and relatively less participation in innovation can affect women and people from other historically underrepresented groups, thereby hindering progress and limiting the potential economic benefits generated by innovation. This paper reviews the global literature on these “diversity gaps”, identifies their key drivers, and documents international policies and initiatives that show promise in addressing them. Building upon Shapanka and Fechner (2018), it expands the geographic scope and reinforces the scientific basis of their analysis. The paper also provides recommendations for a wide range of stakeholders and offers insights for fostering more inclusive and equitable innovation ecosystems.
Año de publicación: 2024
Contracts in Publishing
A toolkit for authors and publishers
Contracts in Publishing: A toolkit for authors and publishers provides information on copyright-related aspects and contractual options in the publishing sector. With a balanced approach considering the interests of both authors and publishers, the publication offers guidance to building basic knowledge and skills for successful publishing, co-publishing and licensing deals, targeting an audience of authors, visual artists, translators and publishers, especially in developing countries.
Año de publicación: 2024
WIPO Intellectual Property Youth Empowerment Strategy (IP-YES!)
The WIPO Intellectual Property and Youth Empowerment Strategy (IP-YES!) provides a structured way forward for targeted and impactful initiatives that will respond to the unique aspirations and needs of youth in three key areas: sparking passion, building skills, and empowering action for youth engagement and leadership in the IP system.
Año de publicación: 2024
Patent Cooperation Treaty Yearly Review – 2024
The International Patent System
Comprehensive facts, figures and analysis of the international patent system.
Año de publicación: 2024
Guide to WIPO's services for country code top-level domain registries
This guide presents country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry operators and national authorities with information on how to resolve third-party domain name disputes in a cost- and time-saving manner. It explains the main policy design features of a successful Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system, and provides information on the WIPO-created Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), including the possibility to tailor the UDRP for specific ccTLD requirements.
Año de publicación: 2024
Hague Yearly Review 2024
International Registration of Industrial Designs
Comprehensive facts, figures and analysis of the international registration of industrial designs.
Año de publicación: 2024
Madrid Yearly Review 2024
International Registration of Marks
Comprehensive facts, figures and analysis of the international registration of marks.
Año de publicación: 2024
AI Inventions
The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the patent system is significant and ongoing. Advancements in machine learning, natural language processing and robotics are reflected in an increasing number of patent applications filed for AI-related inventions. AI may contribute to the inventive process by generating ideas and improving efficiency, raising questions about its role in the inventive process and the DABUS cases highlight the need for clear interpretation of the term "inventor."
Año de publicación: 2024
Innovation and Intellectual Property Use in the Global Video Game Industry
Economic Research Working Paper No.85
This paper is an analysis of the evolution of the global video game industry, a sector characterized by rapid technological innovation and changing business models. It builds on the work of Özalp (2024) and delves into how innovation in hardware, software, digital transformation and business models have redefined the boundaries of game development and player experiences. The paper also explores the important job roles in the industry, the role of intellectual property and end with predictions for the future of the industry. It aims to provide an accessible understanding of the industry's evolution, its current state, and its potential future directions.
Año de publicación: 2024
Heterogeneous Development Paths to Growth and Innovation: The Evolution of the Video Game Industry across Four Hubs
Economic Research Working Paper No.84
This study explores the evolution and success drivers of the global video game industry, focusing on key hubs within Finland, Poland, Japan, and the United States. Using a qualitative methodology, the research delves into how unique capabilities and historical development have contributed to the industry's growth across these nations. The findings reveal diverse pathways to building video game industry clusters, emphasizing the role of cross-industry skill transfer, intellectual property, and government support. In traditional hubs like Japan and the United States, the crossover of capabilities from entertainment and hardware industries has been crucial, whereas, in newer hubs like Finland and Poland, the growth is attributed to unique local developments such as hobby coder communities or leveraging the initial localization efforts to build globally appealing games. It further highlights the pivotal role of education in sustaining the growth of video game industry hubs.
Año de publicación: 2024
The Evolution of the Two-Wheeler Industry: A Comparative Study of Italy, Japan, and India
Economic Research Working Paper No.83
This study leverages secondary data to provide a comprehensive outlook on the origin and evolution of the two-wheeler industry in Italy, Japan, and India. The study reveals how different technological, design, and manufacturing capabilities, combined with specific economic and social features in the historical contexts, have contributed to determine different trajectories in the evolution of these national industries. Recent trends towards digital transformation, electric mobility, connected driving are discussed. Three main takeaways emerge from our analysis. Firstly, the local capabilities play a crucial role in shaping both the origin and progression of the technology and the industry. Secondly, the two-wheeler industry displays patterns and trajectories that mimic the automotive industry, which can thus be used to interpret and forecast past, present, and future of motorcycles. Thirdly, the two-wheeler industry has been uniquely influenced by other industries, which has enhanced the complexity and effectiveness of its products and introduced novel elements which are reshaping the international demand for two-wheelers.
Año de publicación: 2024
Innovation Complexity in AgTech: The case of Brazil, Kenya and the United States of America
Economic Research Working Paper No.82
This paper illustrates successful policies and incentives that build on local innovation capabilities across three agricultural innovation hubs at different income levels and across different geographical regions. It makes the case for how countries highly complex innovation ecosystems, which refer to the diversity and sophistication of local innovators and the types of innovation they produce, tend to have more opportunities to shift their technological path to the frontier. The paper focuses on three agricultural hubs across different income levels and geography to illustrate how smart policies that focus on building local capabilities can help countries diversify and create their own agricultural technological paths. These hubs include: São Paulo in Brazil, Nairobi in Kenya and Colorado in the United States of America.
Año de publicación: 2024
Can we map innovation capabilities?
Economic Research Working Paper No.81
Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of industrial policies globally. Through various industrial policy instruments, governments make critical scientific and technological choices that shape innovation paths and resource allocations. Our paper explores innovation capabilities as essential drivers of competitive outcomes, spanning science, technology, and production domains. Based on the economic complexity literature, we propose a methodological framework to measure the innovation capabilities empirically, leveraging data on scientific publications, patents, and trade. Our findings highlight the multidimensional nature of innovation capabilities and underscore the importance of understanding both the specialization and quality of these capabilities. Our results are in line with the complexity literature, as we also find: (i) positive correlations between the innovation complexity and economic growth; and, (ii) the predictive power of existing innovation capabilities for fostering new ones. Based on these findings, we propose novel indicators informing innovation policymaking on the innovation potential across science, technology, and production fields of an ecosystem. We suggest that innovation policymaking needs to be informed by deeper insights into innovation capabilities that are crucial for long-term growth and competitiveness improvement.
Año de publicación: 2024
Global Trends in Innovation Patterns: A Complexity Approach
Economic Research Working Paper No.80
Technological know-how in a country shapes its growth potential and competitiveness. Scientific publications, patents, and international trade data offer complementary insights into how ideas from science, technology, and production evolve, combine, and are transformed into capabilities. Analyzing their trajectories enables a more comprehensive and multifaceted understanding of the whole innovation process, from generating ideas to internationally commercializing products. We analyze the production patterns in these three domains, documenting the differences between advanced and emerging market economies. We find that future income, patenting, and publishing growth correlate with the economic complexity indices calculated from these domains. Capabilities embedded in the country also shape future diversification opportunities and make the innovation process path dependent. Lastly, we also show that diversification opportunities can be inferred across innovation domains.
Año de publicación: 2024
Innovation Policies Under Economic Complexity
Economic Research Working Paper No.79
Recent geopolitical challenges have revived the implementation of industrial and innovation policies. Ongoing discussions focus on supporting cutting-edge industries and strategic technologies but hardly pay attention to their impact on economic growth. In light of this, we discuss the design of innovation policies to address current development challenges while considering the complex nature of productive activities. Our approach conceives economic development and technological progress as a process of accumulation and diversification of knowledge. This process is limited by the tacit nature of knowledge and by countries' binding constraints to growth. Consequently, effective innovation policies should be place-based and multidimensional, leveraging countries' existing capabilities and addressing countries' current problems. This contrasts policies that lead to economic efficiencies, such as copying other countries' solutions to problems that countries do not currently have.
Año de publicación: 2024
World Intellectual Property Report 2024
Making innovation policy work for development
Combining economic analysis with in-depth industry studies, the 2024 edition of the World Intellectual Property Report introduces a new data-driven methodology designed to help policymakers make informed decisions by leveraging existing local innovation capabilities and strengthen their national innovation ecosystems. Complementing this framework are three case studies across the agriculture technology, motorcycle and video game industries, spanning eight different countries. These studies demonstrate how countries have successfully carved out specialized trajectories within innovative and complex industries.
Año de publicación: 2024
How to Make a Living from Music
Creative industries - third edition
Building a successful career in music includes managing intellectual property (IP) rights. WIPO supports authors and performers in enhancing their knowledge of the intellectual property aspects involved in their professional work. Copyright and related rights can help musical authors and performers generate additional income from their talent.
Año de publicación: 2024
Country Perspectives: Türkiye's Journey
This report gives an account of Türkiye's Journey in the “Unlocking IP-backed Financing Series” - looking at the challenges as well as government-backed initiatives and commitments to facilitate activities supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Año de publicación: 2024
WIPO Magazine, Issue 1/2024
The WIPO Magazine explores intellectual property, creativity and innovation in action across the world.
Año de publicación: 2024
Guide to the International Patent Classification (2024)
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.
Año de publicación: 2024
Country Perspectives: Luxembourg's Journey
Luxembourg's Journey in the “Unlocking IP-backed Financing Series” explores both current practices and the untapped potential of the SME ecosystem within Luxembourg. In particular, the report focuses on support for intellectual property (IP)-intensive companies. This report comes at a time when IP is increasingly attracting interest from rights holders, businesses, consumers and the general public.
Año de publicación: 2024
Access to science and innovation in the developing world
Economic Research Working Paper No.78
We examine the implications of lowering barriers to online access to scientific publications for science and innovation in developing countries. We investigate whether and how free or low-cost access to scientific publications through the UN-led Research For Life (R4L) initiative leads to more scientific publications and clinical trials of authors affiliated with research institutions in developing countries. We find that free or reduced-fee access to the health science literature through Hinari (WHO-led subprogramme) increases the scientific publication output and clinical trials output of institutions in developing countries. In contrast, once we control for selection bias, we do not find empirical support for a positive Hinari effect on knowledge spillovers and local institutions' research input into global patenting, as measured by paper citations in patent documents. Main findings can be generalized to other R4L subprogrammes and are likely to also apply to the WIPO-led Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) programme.
Año de publicación: 2024
Mapping Innovations
Patents and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
This report maps global patents to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), providing invaluable insights into patent trends aligned with the SDGs. It illustrates patenting activities relevant to the SDGs and the state of technology development across these goals. Utilizing the WIPO Technology Concordance, the report analyzes the alignment between specific technology fields and the SDGs. The study further investigates the geographical locations of inventors and jurisdictions for protecting SDG-related patents. Additionally, a detailed analysis of patent owners headquartered in five key regions is presented, highlighting their pivotal role in driving sustainable innovation across various industries.
Año de publicación: 2024
WIPO Strategy on Standard Essential Patents 2024-2026
This document sets out a three-year strategic plan for WIPO in the field of standard essential patents (SEPs). The strategy, based on the guiding principles of neutrality, complementarity and voluntary nature, gives an account of WIPO's current activities and sets forth the four pillars of WIPO's upcoming work to serve as a global platform for discussion, enhance transparency, be a hub of knowledge and data, and provide meaningful services in the SEP area.
Año de publicación: 2024
WIPO International Patent Drafting Training Program
A comprehensive training program that improves the knowledge and skills required for successful patent applications.
Año de publicación: 2024
Incentives in Technology Transfer
A guide to encourage, recognize and reward researchers and professionals
The “Incentives in Technology Transfer” Guide offers valuable insights on incentivizing academic researchers and technology transfer professionals to actively participate in technology transfer activities and research commercialization. Drawing from successful global examples, the Guide explores motivations, challenges, and diverse incentives. The Guide also provides recommendations for universities and governments in formulating incentive schemes, an action plan for the planning process, and a questionnaire template for a better understanding of stakeholders, with the aim of optimizing incentive programs and improving technology transfer effectiveness.
Año de publicación: 2024
Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: An Economic Perspective
Economic Research Working Paper No.77
The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has profound implications for intellectual property (IP) frameworks. While much of the discussion so far has focused on the legal implications, we focus on the economic dimension. We dissect AI's role as both a facilitator and disruptor of innovation and creativity. Recalling economic principles and reviewing relevant literature, we explore the evolving landscape of AI innovation incentives and the challenges it poses to existing IP frameworks. From patentability dilemmas to copyright conundrums, we find that there is a delicate balance between fostering innovation and safeguarding societal interests amidst rapid technological progress. We also point to areas where future economic research could offer valuable insights to policymakers.
Año de publicación: 2024
Getting the innovation ecosystem ready for AI
An IP policy toolkit
As AI technologies evolve at an exponential pace there are many questions and challenges for IP and the IP system. The purpose of this IP policy toolkit is to provide policymakers with a framework to understand the state of play of AI innovation right now and to think about the future as AI becomes increasingly autonomous.
Año de publicación: 2024