PCT Newsletter
November 2025 | No. 11/2025
Celebrating IP Examiners on 11 November 2025
Intellectual property (IP) examiners play a key role in ensuring the quality of patents, trademarks, industrial designs, and geographical indications worldwide, enabling innovation, technology and entrepreneurship to flourish. On 11 November 2025, WIPO held its first celebration of IP examiners. To find out more, watch the video in six languages and listen to Deputy Director General Hasan Kleib’s message on the IP examiners’ celebration day. You can also find useful resources for IP examiners, a social media kit in six languages, and a changemakers gallery highlighting inspiring IP examiners’ stories on the website.
You can also watch the winning and finalists’ videos from the video competition showing the behind-the-scenes of an IP examination.
Congratulations to the winning videos!
First place: The Guardian of Innovation, Mexico
Second place: Our Jianghu “Martial Arts World”, China
Third place: Shaping Brands, The Examiner’s Pride, Uganda
Fourth place: A Day in the Life of an IP Examiner, Kazakhstan
Fifth place: The Silent Guardians: The Hidden Force Driving Innovation, Saudi Arabia
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