Malawi has become the first nation to ratify the WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge, the first WIPO Treaty to address the interface between intellectual property, genetic resources and traditional knowledge.
WIPO’s international patent system published its 5 millionth patent application, marking a major milestone in decades of operations making it easier and cheaper for inventors to protect and promote their work around the world.
WIPO member states today approved a new Treaty that will make it easier, faster and more affordable for designers the world over to protect their designs both at home and abroad, marking a major step forward in empowering designers and fostering international collaboration in design.
Delegates from WIPO’s member states opened on November 11, 2024 the final stage of negotiations on a proposed treaty that will support designers around the world in seeking protection for their designs, with Director General Daren Tang calling on negotiators to be creative in finding areas of convergence to finalize the treaty.
Global patenting activity reached new heights in 2023 as applications surpassed 3.5 million for the first time, marking the fourth consecutive year of growth despite a challenging macroeconomic environment, according to WIPO’s annual World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI) report.
WIPO member state delegates will convene from November 11-22, 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the final leg of negotiations on a proposed treaty that will support designers the world over in seeking protection for their designs.
Switzerland, Sweden, the United States, Singapore and the United Kingdom are the world’s most-innovative economies, while China, Türkiye, India, Viet Nam and the Philippines are the fastest 10-year climbers, according to WIPO’s Global Innovation Index (GII) 2024, which shows a softening in venture capital activity, R&D funding and other investment indicators.
China and the United States (US) are home to the world’s largest science and technology (S&T) clusters, with shifts among the top 100 showing especially fast growth of innovative activity in certain emerging economies, according to an early release from the 2024 edition of WIPO’s Global Innovation Index (GII).
Nine SMEs and startups with products ranging from 3D-printed bone implants to waste sorting robots and AI-powered brain injury scanners are this year’s winners of the WIPO Global Awards.
WIPO Director General Daren Tang opened the WIPO’s Assemblies annual meetings with a call for delegates to work in a spirit of consensus and build on a recent diplomatic breakthrough in support of a transformation of WIPO and the global intellectual property (IP) ecosystem.