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WIPO Announces 2025 Global Awards Winners: Recognizing IP-Driven Innovation and Impact

WIPO Announces 2025 Global Awards Winners: Recognizing IP-Driven Innovation and Impact

Ten SMEs and startups are the winners of this year’s WIPO Global Awards, with products including antibody therapeutics, sign-to-speech gloves, next-generation memory chips and sust

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Investment in Intangible Assets Surges, led by Funding for Software and Databases Amid AI Boom

Investment in Intangible Assets Surges, led by Funding for Software and Databases Amid AI Boom

Investment in intangible assets such as data, software, brands and other intellectual property-backed assets grew three times faster in 2024 than investment in physical assets such

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Director General Daren Tang Opens WIPO Assemblies Meetings, Welcoming Largest-Ever Delegate Participation

Director General Daren Tang Opens WIPO Assemblies Meetings, Welcoming Largest-Ever Delegate Participation

Director General Daren Tang welcomed the biggest-ever contingent of delegates to a WIPO Assemblies meeting on Tuesday, calling for collective action to ensure that the global intel

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World Intellectual Property Day 2025 Celebrates Musicians

World Intellectual Property Day 2025 Celebrates Musicians

Pop music continues to dominate global charts while reggaeton and K-pop are gaining fans among the ranks of the most-popular musical genres, according to new WIPO data released to

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Use of WIPO’s Global IP Registries for Patents, Trademarks and Designs Grew in 2024

Use of WIPO’s Global IP Registries for Patents, Trademarks and Designs Grew in 2024

The World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) global intellectual property (IP) registries for patents, trademarks and designs all registered growth in 2024, as enterprises

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Reusable Rockets, Autonomous Autos, Smart Ships: Inventing Increasingly Reshaping the Transportation Industry, New WIPO Report Finds

Reusable Rockets, Autonomous Autos, Smart Ships: Inventing Increasingly Reshaping the Transportation Industry, New WIPO Report Finds

Innovation in the global transportation sector is increasingly focusing on greener, futuristic technologies like air taxis, wireless charging for electric vehicles and self-pilotin

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Apply Now: WIPO Global Awards 2025 Recognizes Startups, SMEs and Spinouts

Apply Now: WIPO Global Awards 2025 Recognizes Startups, SMEs and Spinouts

The WIPO Global Awards 2025 competition opened today with a call for applications from startups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and university spinouts that use intellec

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Malawi is First to Ratify WIPO Treaty on IP, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge

Malawi is First to Ratify WIPO Treaty on IP, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge

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

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Spreading Innovation: WIPO’s International Patent System Passes 5 Million Mark for Published Applications

Spreading Innovation: WIPO’s International Patent System Passes 5 Million Mark for Published Applications

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 pr

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