WIPO Pearl: Enhanced Database

January 9, 2023

The WIPO Pearl database has been updated and now contains over 235,000 terms, all validated by WIPO-PCT language experts. In addition, nearly 26,000 concepts (or 86%) are linked to other concepts in the database, and these relationships can be browsed in our Concept Map Search. Further relationships can be shown in unvalidated “concept clouds” produced via a machine learning algorithm.

Terms related to intellectual property

This release includes 45 key concepts related to intellectual property, which are provided in 6 languages and comprise in total 300 terms. The terms, which can also be explored in WIPO Pearl’s concept maps, are derived from the following WIPO treaties:

• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization

Collaboration with universities

This release also includes 660 multilingual terminology records comprising over 1,800 terms provided by students at the following universities, following our validation:

• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
• China University of Petroleum Beijing, China
• Université Grenoble Alpes, France
• University of Heidelberg, Germany
• University of Genoa, Italy
• Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon
• University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea
• Astrakhan State University, Russian Federation
• Herzen State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation
• Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
• University of Leeds, United Kingdom
• University of Newcastle, United Kingdom
• Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, United States of America

We invite universities who are interested in a terminology collaboration of this kind to contact us.