WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center has received its 100th cybersquatting case under the dispute resolution policy for the .CN and .中国 (China) country code Top-Level Domain, two years after becoming the only non-Chinese entity to be accredited to provide this service.
Take a virtual tour around the world to discover examples of geographical indications, or GIs, from WIPO’s Member States. GIs are signs that link products to a specific place of origin and are an important branding tool in an interlinked, global economy where consumers seek authentic products.
This package outlines WIPO’s suite of support measures to assist Member States in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as lay the foundations for post COVID economic recovery efforts. It comprises five main areas: policy and legislative advice; technical assistance and capacity building; innovation support and technology transfer; IP dispute resolution; and knowledge resources.
How do startups that often rely on a single idea successfully take their innovation to market? A new introductory guide provides a road map for the role of the intellectual property system in this journey. Through step-by-step counsel, useful case studies and simple checklists, the guide illustrates how small businesses can use IP to remain competitive and manage risks.
The Directors General of WHO, WIPO and the WTO agreed to enhance their support to members battling the pandemic by collaborating on a series of workshops to augment the flow of information on the pandemic and by implementing a joint platform for tripartite technical assistance to member governments relating to their needs for medical technologies. As a result of their meeting on 15 June, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Daren Tang and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala issued a joint statement.
WIPO for Creators has welcomed its first partners to the new effort to support creators around the world by ensuring they are recognized and fairly rewarded for their work by increasing knowledge and awareness of their intellectual property rights.
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.
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.
WIPO’s Global Innovation Index analyzed recent trade patterns in innovation-intensive high-tech goods, finding a surge in the second half of 2020 for communications, computing, processing and data storage equipment geared toward remote and mobile work.
Time to gear up for the World Intellectual Property Day 2021 on April 26. This year we're highlighting how smaller businesses can benefit from intellectual property with the theme “IP and SMEs: Taking your ideas to market.”