Each April 26, we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day to learn about the role that intellectual property (IP) rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity. This year we highlighted how IP helps small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) grow and thrive with the theme “IP and SMEs: Taking your ideas to market.”
Innovations that help people overcome mobility, sight and other disabilities have seen double-digit growth in recent years and these “assistive technologies" are increasingly integrated with consumer goods, WIPO’s Technology Trends report found.
International patent applications via WIPO continued to grow amid the COVID-19 pandemic’s vast human and economic toll, with leading users China and the U.S. each marking yearly growth in filings.
Cambodia has recorded Kampot Pepper as the first geographical indication (GI) registered via the Geneva Act of WIPO’s Lisbon System, which provides protection for names identifying the geographic origin of products such as coffee, tea, cheese, wine, pottery, and cloth.
WIPO’s Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) has launched a new application that makes digital books in accessible formats available for direct download by individuals who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled.
Registering the trademark was an important aspect of the international marketing strategy. Having registered my trademark in markets abroad gave me the confidence to say, "This is who we are, this is our product, this is Rocksteady Coffee." - Ricardo Forbes, Creator of Rocksteady Coffee. Read this inspiring story
WIPO’s global IP systems and other services are continuing operations, with most staff working remotely. Updates can be found via this central repository.
We provide the data and economic intelligence that enable strategic decisions, and artificial intelligence tools that enrich IP services and administration.
We bring stakeholders together to develop global IP agreements. Follow policy discussions and negotiations on the future development of IP in our standing committees and meetings.
The Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) aims to increase the number of books worldwide in accessible formats and to make them available to people who are blind or visually impaired.
WIPO GREEN promotes innovation and diffusion of green technologies by connecting technology and service providers with those seeking innovative, environmental solutions.
WIPO Re:Search is an international consortium through which public and private sector organizations share intellectual property and expertise with the global health research community.
The Patent Information Initiative for Medicines (Pat-INFORMED) provides a service to the global health community by facilitating easy access to medicine patent information.