https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/ The WIPO RSS newsfeed provides access to the digital versions of our publications, studies and information products. en WIPO 20 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 4882 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4882 The Journey of Central America and the Dominican Republic in the “Unlocking IP-backed Financing Series” provides an overview of the IP finance landscape across Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, where legal frameworks generally allow intellectual property assets to be used as collateral but the practical use of IP-backed financing remains at an early stage. The report examines key challenges, including limited market experience, limited familiarity with intangible assets within the financial sector, the limited use of valuation practices, and the need for stronger links between IP, innovation and financial ecosystems. It also highlights growing interest among financial institutions in exploring new financing approaches and identifies actions to strengthen technical capacity, institutional coordination and the gradual integration of IP into financing mechanisms across the region. Thu, 08 Oct 2026 4881 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4881 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. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 4880 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4880 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. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 4879 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4879 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. Thu, 10 Sep 2026 4878 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4878 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. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 4875 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4875 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. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 4874 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4874 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. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 4873 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4873 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. Tue, 04 Aug 2026 4854 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4854 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. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 4869 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4869 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. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 4868 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4868 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. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 4867 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4867 This executive brief identifies key trends in the use of the WIPO-administered Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 4865 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4865 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. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 4866 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4866 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. Tue, 07 Jul 2026 4864 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4864 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. Mon, 06 Jul 2026 4863 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4863 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. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 4862 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4862 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. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 4860 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4860 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. Tue, 16 Jun 2026 4859 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4859 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. Thu, 11 Jun 2026 4858 https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4858 The aim of the Lisbon Agreement is to provide for the protection of appellations of origin, i.e., the “geographical denomination of a country, region, or locality, which serves to designate a product originating therein, the quality or characteristics of which are due exclusively or essentially to the geographical environment, including natural and human factors” (Article 2). The Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement allows the international registration of geographical indications (GIs), in addition to appellations of origin, and permits the accession to the Lisbon Agreement by certain intergovernmental organizations.