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COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapeutics
Environment and Sustainability
Hydrogen fuel cells in transportation
Publication year: 2022
Over the next decade, transforming transportation to Net Zero requires a combination of technological innovation, government and corporate decision-making, and adapted customer behavior. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation is crucial. This WIPO report provides early observations on the patenting activity together with complementary information from online news, press releases, and corporate financial reporting in the field of hydrogen fuel cells in transportation.
Microalgae-Related Technologies
Publication year: 2016
This report aims to provide patent-based info on technologies and patenting trends in microalgae. It covers patent applications and granted patents, revealing interesting facets of related research and innovation.
E-Waste Recycling Technologies
Publication year: 2013
This report covers in detail patent applications and granted patents within the space of e-waste processing, and the recycling and recovery of materials from consumer products at the end of their useful life. Additionally, the report uses reference information, such as news and other business data sources to extend the information into real-world applicability, and also to verify the interest and commercial activity of entities mentioned within the study.
Solar Cooling Technologies
Publication year: 2012
This report provides a general overview of existing solar cooling technologies and potential fields of application. It includes applications that go beyond air-conditioning, such as the cooling of water; refrigeration of sensitive goods, such as medicines; or desalination of seawater.
Solar Cooking
Publication year: 2011
This report seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of available technologies that exclusively use solar energy as the primary energy source for cooking or pasteurizing food. At the same time, it identifies systems that are simple and easy to use in environments of rural communities; preferably systems that could be used in individual households. The report provides a description of the patent search methodology and evaluation of the results, showcasing the tools for accessing and using patent information.
Desalination Technologies and the Use of Alternative Energies for Desalination
Publication year: 2011
This report presents various patterns of patenting activity and innovation in the area of desalination, with a separate focus on the use of renewable energies for desalination. It includes a comprehensive explanation of the search methodology and history (including all search queries), and of the evaluation of the search results is included and illustrates how patent information can be retrieved and exploited in the area of desalination.
Agritech
Marine Genetic Resources
Publication year: 2019
This report examines the scientific and patent landscapes for marine genetic resources in the South East Asia (ASEAN region).
Palm Oil Production and Waste Treatment Technologies
Publication year: 2016
This report provides an overview of the global patent landscape in the area of palm oil production and waste exploitation, and includes national patent applications from Malaysia. It covers patenting activity related to technologies in production of palm oil and palm kernel oil, and treatment of waste from palm oil production.
Animal Genetic Resources
Publication year: 2014
This report is the first large-scale quantitative analysis of patenting activity related to livestock animals, covering biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, immunology, gene therapy, stem cells, and transgenic animals. Its main focus is to address the challenges in identifying patent activity for animal genetic resources in general, and specifically for animal genetic resources used in food and agriculture. The report also explores the use of traditional knowledge (TK) and the mention of the source of origin of genetic resources in patent documents.
Membrane Filtration and UV Water Treatment
Publication year: 2012
This report focuses on various water treatment methods, including UV disinfection and micro-, ultra-, and nanofiltration, used to make water safe and clean for drinking and irrigation. It identifies patents related to these technologies, as well as patents related to desalination treatment. It also looks at patents on inventions that form part of desalination (pre- or post- desalination) treatment in particular.
Healthtech
COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics
Publication year: 2023
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been remarkable research and innovation efforts to fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 disease. WIPO published two reports that provide observations based on a comprehensive review of the patenting activity that took place in the field of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics.
Assistive Technology
Publication year: 2021
This groundbreaking report looks at patenting and technology trends in innovation in assistive technology. It identifies the prominent technologies, top players and markets for patent protection across seven domains – mobility, cognition, communication, hearing, the built environment, self-care and vision. Using a scale of technology readiness, it reveals which of the identified assistive products filed for patent protection are closest to commercialization.
Assistive Devices for Visually and Hearing Impaired Persons
Publication year: 2015
This Report presents research on various assistive devices and technologies, includes an analysis on the geographical distribution of patent protection of these technologies, and features business data on major patent portfolios as well as a round-up of key innovators. Additionally, the report touches on technologies serving the same goals as the Marrakesh Treaty and the Accessible Book Consortium (ABC), namely those facilitating access of visually and hearing impaired persons to published works.
Vaccines for Selected Infectious Diseases
Publication year: 2012
The scope of this report is to detect patterns of patenting activity and innovation in the area of vaccine research and manufacturing in order to facilitate the sourcing of vaccine technologies that could potentially be used in developing countries.
Ritonavir
Publication year: 2011
This report focuses on Ritonavir, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV infection and AIDS. The main objective of the report is to provide a technology timeline for Ritonavir, from its first patent filing to the present. The report identifies several innovation tracks derived from the first Ritonavir patent document, and also includes an analysis of statistical trends. The search methodology and evaluation of search results are explained in detail, demonstrating how patent information can be utilized in the pharmaceutical industry.
Atazanavir
Publication year: 2011
This report focuses on Atazanavir, an antiretroviral drug for HIV and AIDS treatment. The report aims to track the evolution of patent protection for Atazanavir from its first filing to present filings and provide best practices for patent research in the pharmaceutical industry. A separate chapter of the report is dedicated to combination therapies in pharmaceutical development, with a focus on AIDS therapies.
Chemicals and materials
Graphite and its applications
Publication year: 2023
This report examines global graphite-related patenting activity in the last decade. In addition, the report uses market and business information to assess the current state of graphite technologies and identify innovation hot topics, as well as examining both better-studied areas and the emerging uses of graphite.
Production of titanium and titanium dioxide from ilmenite
Publication year: 2023
This report provides a landscape of the patent activity on the process of extracting titanium dioxide or titanium metal from ilmenite ore. In addition, a section on the industrial applications of titanium dioxide and titanium metal focuses on selected applications, such as ceramics, medical technology, electrodes for batteries, cosmetics, coatings and water treatment. This WIPO Patent Landscape Report aims to help policy and decision makers identify opportunities for ilmenite processing technologies and applications.
Information and Communication Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Publication year: 2019
WIPO Technology Trends 2019: Artificial Intelligence documents how AI-powered technologies are rapidly entering global markets and brings together viewpoints from experts at the cutting edge of AI. It is a contribution that aims to provide decision makers in the public and private sectors with an improved knowledge base for discussions on the future of AI and the policy and regulatory framework for this fast-moving area.