Geneva, September 23, 2013 PR/2013/745 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Director General Francis Gurry opened the WIPO Assemblies of member states with a call for better linkages between developing-world creators and the worldwide online …
Geneva, September 20, 2013 PR/2013/744 WIPO has added China’s national patent collection to the searchable PATENTSCOPE database, pushing the service past the 30 million record mark and increasing it to 34 national and regional patent collections, giving …
Geneva, September 3, 2013 MA/2013/62 Four world-renowned pioneers from the fields of medicine, architecture and industrial design will draw common insights from their varied experiences on September 24, 2013 as they engage with policy makers seeking to …
Geneva, July 1, 2013 PR/2013/743 Released jointly by WIPO, Cornell University, INSEAD and its Global Innovation Index 2013 edition Knowledge Partners, Booz Company, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), du and Huawei Global Innovation Index 2013 The …
Marrakesh/Geneva, June 28, 2013 PR/2013/742 Recording legend Stevie Wonder today congratulated international negotiators who concluded a new treaty easing access to books for the blind, and urged national lawmakers to swiftly ratify the accord and unlock …
Marrakesh/Geneva, June 27, 2013 PR/2013/741 International negotiators meeting under the auspices of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) adopted today a landmark new treaty that boosts access to books for the benefit of hundreds of millions …
Geneva, June 25, 2013 MA/2013/61 The conventional model for researching and developing new medical and pharmaceutical products is under scrutiny, with new incentives and collaborative innovation models needed to meet evolving market requirements in …
Geneva, June 21, 2013 PR/2013/740 Music legend Stevie Wonder appealed to more than 600 negotiators from WIPO’s 186 member states to finalize their discussions in the coming days and conclude a new international treaty to ease access to books for blind, …
Geneva, June 18, 2013 PR/2013/739 More than 600 negotiators from WIPO’s 186 member states began work today on finalizing a new international treaty to ease access to books for blind, visually impaired, and other print disabled people. The Diplomatic …
Geneva, June 10, 2013 PR/2013/738 Hundreds of negotiators representing countries around the world will gather later this month to work on finalizing a new international treaty to ease access to books for blind, visually impaired, and other print disabled …
Geneva, April 25, 2013 PR/2013/737 The theme of this year’s World Intellectual Property Day – Creativity – the next generation –honors the talented and ingenious creators and innovators who are imagining how the world will look tomorrow. Intellectual …
Istanbul, April 24, 2013 PR/2013/736 Senior decision-makers from governments, law enforcement, Customs and the private sector gather in Istanbul, Turkey, for the Seventh Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, to seek innovative responses …
Geneva, April 12, 2013 PR/2013/735 The addition, this month, of over ten million documents from the national patent collection of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), dating from 1790 to the present day, has expanded WIPO’s PATENTSCOPE to …
Geneva, April 8, 2013 PR/2013/734 India’s Minster for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma today deposited his country’s instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol for the International Registration of Marks at WIPO, bringing the total number of members …
Geneva, March 28, 2013 PR/2013/733 An International Survey on Dispute Resolution in Technology Transactions conducted by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center reveals that less than 2% of technology agreements lead to formal dispute proceedings, but …
Geneva, March 19, 2013 PR/2013/732 International filings for patents, trademarks and industrial designs under WIPO-administered intellectual property (IP) systems saw continued strong growth in 2012. In 2012, international patent applications filed under …
Geneva/Dar es Salaam, March 14, 2013 PR/2013/731 A meeting bringing together over twenty African ministers, the President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, the heads of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) …
Geneva/Dar es Salaam, March 12, 2013 PR/2013/730 Some twenty African ministers, senior policy makers and enterpreneurs joined President Jakaya Kikwete of the United Republic of Tanzania and WIPO Director General Francis Gurry at the opening of a two-day …
Geneva, March 12, 2013 MA/2013/60 Journalists wishing to cover an international conference to conclude a treaty to facilitate access to published works by visually impaired persons and persons with print disabilities are invited to apply for media …
Geneva, December 18, 2012 PR/2012/727 Video | Transcript Meeting in extraordinary session, the WIPO General Assembly took a landmark decision today to convene a diplomatic conference in 2013 to complete negotiations on a pact to improve access to …
