WIPO Pearl: Enhanced database

May 24, 2023

The WIPO Pearl database has been updated and now contains over 240,000 terms, all validated by WIPO-PCT language experts. In addition, nearly 27,000 concepts (or 88%) are linked to other concepts in the database, and these relationships can be browsed in our Concept Map Search. Further relationships can be shown in unvalidated “concept clouds” produced via a machine learning algorithm.

Terms related to intellectual property

This release includes 140 key concepts related to intellectual property, which are provided in 5 languages and comprise in total 820 terms. The terms, which can also be explored in WIPO Pearl’s concept maps, are derived from the following WIPO treaties:

• Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration (as amended on September 28, 1979)
• Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications (as adopted on May 20, 2015)
• Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs – The Hague Act (1960)
• Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs – Geneva Act (1999)

Collaboration with universities

This release also includes 210 multilingual terminology records comprising over 650 terms provided by students at the following universities, following our validation:

• Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
• Universidad del Valle, Colombia
• Université Grenoble Alpes, France
• Moscow State Linguistic University, Russian Federation

We invite universities who are interested in a terminology collaboration of this kind to contact us.

Terms in Italian

This release also includes the first terms to be added to WIPO Pearl in Italian.