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A Guide to the Main WIPO Services
This brochure outlines the range of global intellectual property (IP) services that are offered by WIPO to support businesses and individuals through the IP lifecycle. These services can help innovators and creators protect their inventions, trademarks and designs in multiple countries, and resolve their IP disputes, through free global databases of IP information, highly efficient and cost-effective global IP protection services, and neutral non-profit dispute resolution services.
Publication year: 2022
Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights
Third edition
This third edition of Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights presents an in-depth revision with invaluable updates on the different systems, legislative options and best practices of CMOs worldwide. As with previous editions, the book is written to reach a wide audience, with a special focus on questions that might emerge for governments as they prepare, adopt and apply collective management norms and regulations. The edition also sheds light on new copyright and related rights developments, including digital, technological and business trends, from all over the world. Additionally, there is detailed discussion on topics such as aspects of competition, national treatment, and different models of collective management.
WIPO Magazine, Issue 4/2022 (December)
The WIPO Magazine explores intellectual property, creativity and innovation in action across the world.
Rights, Camera, Action! Intellectual property rights and the filmmaking process
2nd Edition
Rights, Camera, Action! offers professionals in the audiovisual industry guidance on how to use intellectual property protection to generate business opportunities. The reader is taken through the different stages from securing finance to distribution to ensure a successful audiovisual production. With practical advice and enriching case studies from developing countries “Rights, Camera, Action!” will help individual filmmakers and distributors monetize their creative content.
Madrid Yearly Review 2022 – Executive Summary
International Registration of Marks
This executive brief identifies key trends in the use of the WIPO-administered Madrid System.
Sharing Knowledge, Building IP Skills – The WIPO Academy Review 2020–2021
This report presents the Academy's achievements in 2020 and 2021, and highlights the latest developments across programs, including new partnerships and course offerings.
Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
Regulations under the PCT (as in force from July 1, 2022)
The Patent Cooperation Treaty makes it possible to seek patent protection for an invention simultaneously in each of a large number of countries by filing an "international" patent application. Such an application may be filed by anyone who is a national or a resident of a Contracting State.
Global Challenges in Focus
Progress in hydrogen fuel cell technology development and deployment in China
Hydrogen is high on the political and innovation agendas of many countries, research institutions and companies. It is an energy medium with great potential for contributing to a transition towards carbon-neutral energy, however, hydrogen sources are dominated by fossil fuels, and the technical and economic challenges remain considerable. This report provides an overview of current hydrogen and fuel cell technology trends internationally, and with a specific focus on developments and implementation in China.
International Patent Classification (IPC)
An effective and easy-to-use system to classify and search patent documents
WIPO IP Facts and Figures 2021
An overview of intellectual property activity based on the latest available year of complete statistics.