Brazil Joins WIPO’s International Trademark System: Major New Benefits for Brand Owners in Brazil and Around the World (PR/2019/833)
World Intellectual Property Day 2019 “Reach for Gold: IP and Sports” (PR/2019/832)
World Intellectual Property Day 2019 explores how innovation, creativity and the intellectual property (IP) rights that encourage and protect them support the development and worldwide enjoyment of sports.
WIPO Launches State-of-the-Art Artificial Intelligence-Based Image Search Tool for Brands (PR/2019/831)
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered image search technology that makes it faster and easier to establish the distinctiveness of a trademark in a target market.
WIPO 2018 IP Services: Innovators File Record Number of International Patent Applications, With Asia Now Leading (PR/2019/830)
Asia-based innovators filed more than half of all international patent applications via WIPO for the first time in 2018 on significant growth from China, India and the Republic of Korea, capping another record-setting year for WIPO’s global intellectual property (IP) services.
WIPO Cybersquatting Cases Grow by 12% to Reach New Record in 2018 (PR/2019/829)
Trademark owners filed a record 3,447 cases under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center in 2018 as businesses reacted to the proliferation of websites used for counterfeit sales, fraud, phishing, and other forms of online trademark abuse.
United States of America Joins WIPO’s Marrakesh Treaty as 50th Member In Major Advance for the Global Blind Community (PR/2019/828)
The United States of America has joined WIPO’s fast-growing Marrakesh Treaty as its 50th member, adding a major global publishing center to the Treaty that promotes the increased worldwide availability of texts specially adapted for use by persons with visual or print impairments.
WIPO’s First "Technology Trends" Study Probes Artificial Intelligence: IBM and Microsoft are Leaders Amid Recent Global Upsurge in AI Inventive Activity (PR/2019/827)
A new WIPO flagship study has documented a massive recent surge in artificial intelligence-based inventions, with U.S.-based companies IBM and Microsoft leading the pack as AI has moved from the theoretical realm toward the global marketplace in recent years.