Technology & Innovation
IP and sports: Ready, set, innovate
Celebration moves as trademarks. AI replicating athletes. Music on the ice. Our 2026 issue explores the IP rights working to keep sports moving.
The technology and patents behind the Paralympic Winter Games
The recent Paralympic Winter Games demonstrated notable advances in parasport technology. These innovations enhance competition and excitement and deliver benefits beyond the Games themselves.
How fitness equipment design shapes performance
Sports-related industrial design filings are on the rise. And when it comes to protecting key innovations such as adjustable dumbbells, the Hague System does a lot of heavy lifting.
Carbfix: Carbon capture and storage technology turns CO2 into stone
Carbfix, the Icelandic carbon-capture company using IP to scale its climate technologies.
Carbon One: long-lasting battery technology
Meet Carbon One, the Chinese climate-tech startup whose new battery technology could make your smartphone or electric car run for days.
Cheerleading music licensing in sports: ClicknClear’s Chantal Epp
Discover how a two-time world champion cheerleader is giving athletes and sports event organizers easy access to music, while ensuring fair pay for creators.
Green-nickel extraction: Baniql's IP scaling strategy
Baniql, the climate-tech startup using IP to scale up its climate technologies. Discover how its patent strategy helped raise millions for breakthrough green tech.
FRAND licensing for SMEs: dancing with elephants in the world of SEPs
If you want to know how to get better at making FRANDs in the SEP ecosystem as a small player, here are our takeaways from the WIPO symposium. Care to dance?
Nobel Prize 2025: the 200+ PCT applications behind the breakthroughs
The 2025 Nobel laureates were applying for patents long before this year’s recognition. Meet the inventors reshaping atmospheric water harvesting, quantum physics and our understanding of immune function.
Building tomorrow’s food system: how agri-biotech innovators use IP strategically
Three companies show how innovation, IP and commercial strategy can make agriculture safer while benefiting public health and the environment.
Could AI music be the industry’s next Napster moment?
The music industry survived Napster by learning to adapt. Now generative AI is testing those same survival instincts.
Royalties in the age of AI: paying artists for AI-generated songs
When creating AI-generated music, Gen Ai models are trained on existing datasets. Find out about royalties when Ai generates a song based on existing music.
US Copyright Office on AI: Human creativity still matters, legally
How much human input must have gone into AI-generated art for it to fall under copyright? When the US Copyright Office set out to answer this question, it found that the human touch makes all the difference. But there are distinctions.
IFPI looks at a decade of digital transformation in the music industry
IFPI data shows that music revenue has doubled to US$29.6 billion since 2014, with streaming now accounting for 69 per cent. Read how the industry responds to unprecedented challenges posed by AI and how artists are flying, especially in regions once hardest hit by piracy.
Artificial Intelligence – the synergy of technology and creativity
AI and creativity can coexist. Sony Music's Geoff Taylor envisions ethical partnerships – not exploitation – as the path forward. Discover how AI transforms music while respecting IP rights.
AI voice cloning: how a Bollywood veteran set a legal precedent
Playback singer Arijit Singh is the most followed artist on Spotify. When his voice was cloned, the resulting court case highlighted growing concerns around AI, IP and personality rights.
Tantrum pending: how one father took his pacifier from patent to market – and weaned his daughter off her dummy
The pacifier is a near-universal object that was first patented more than a century ago. So, what could there be left to reinvent? A young father from Singapore may have the answer.
Unlocking the power of intellectual property in medical technology
AI-powered brain scanners or portable ultrasound devices are revolutionizing health care. New medtech startups can bring these life-changing technologies to patients worldwide but must protect their assets first.
A FRAND in need: why establishing standardized technologies is so complicated
Wi-Fi, 5G and Bluetooth are part of our everyday lives. But implementing such standards is a process fraught with IP challenges. In the push and pull between patent holders and product developers, everyone feels a little like Snoopy.
‘Painting’ with data: how media artist Refik Anadol creates art using generative AI
Generative AI is set to reshape not just technology but also the way we create and think about art. Media artist and designer Refik Anadol is at the forefront of the revolution.
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