Geneva, December 14, 2015 PR/2015/786 Innovators filed some 2.7 million patent applications to mark another worldwide annual rise in 2014, as application activity in China outstripped the combined total in its next-closest followers, the United States and …
Genève, November 11, 2015 PR/2015/785 Japan and the United States lead a small group of nations that are driving innovation in 3D printing, nanotechnology and robotics, three frontier technologies that hold the potential to boost future economic growth, a …
Dakar, Senegal, November 3, 2015 PR/2015/784 Mauritius President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim and Senegal Prime Minister Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne joined WIPO Director General Francis Gurry in stressing the importance of intellectual property (IP) in …
Geneva, October 15, 2015 PR/2015/783 Capping ten days of deliberations, WIPO member states approved the Organization’s Program and Budget for the two-year period beginning in 2016 and made good progress on a wide range of issues. Delegates at the WIPO …
Geneva, October 9, 2015 PR/2015/782 WIPO Director General Francis Gurry welcomed on October 9, 2015 an Australian contribution of AUD 3 million for projects to help developing and least developing countries (LDCs) build capacity in the field of …
Geneva, October 5, 2015 PR/2015/781 WIPO Director General Francis Gurry opened the WIPO Assemblies by saying that increasing interest in intellectual property is driving uptake of WIPO’s global IP systems and resulting in a healthy financial state for the …
London, United Kingdom, September 17, 2015 PR/2015/780 Released jointly by WIPO, Cornell University, INSEAD and its Global Innovation Index 2015 edition Knowledge Partners, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), du and A.T. Kearney and IMP³rove – …
Geneva, May 20, 2015 PR/2015/779 Negotiators approved a revision of an international registration system providing protection for names that identify the geographic origin of products such as coffee, tea, fruits, wine, pottery, glass and cloth. A …
Geneva, May 11, 2015 PR/2015/778 High-level negotiations opened on a proposed adjustment to an international registration system providing international protection for names that identify the geographic origin of products such as coffee, tea, fruits, wine, …
Geneva, May 4, 2015 PR/2015/777 Negotiators will gather next week to discuss a proposed adjustment to an international registration system providing international protection for names that identify the geographic origin of products such as coffee, tea, …
Geneva, April 23, 2015 PR/2015/776 In the early 1970s, fans of Bob Marley and the Wailers gathered around record players, 8-track tape decks and cassette players to listen to “Get Up, Stand Up”, which went on to become an international anthem for human …
Geneva, April 16, 2015 PR/2015/775 WIPO today launched the multilingual interface of ePCT, marking a major expansion of its global gateway for online filing and management of international patent applications. Video: Video After an initial pilot phase that …
Geneva, March 5, 2015 MA/2015/63 Journalists wishing to cover the Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of a New Act of the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration are invited to apply for media …
Geneva, March 19, 2015 PR/2015/774 Three telecoms giants from China and the United States led international patent filing activity via WIPO in 2014, a fifth consecutive record-breaking year amid overall growth in the Organization’s global intellectual …
Geneva, February 26, 2015 PR/2015/773 WIPO Re:Search signed on more than a dozen new members in 2014, including two leading pharmaceutical firms, and nearly doubled the number of research agreements using shared intellectual property to promote the fight …
Geneva, February 13, 2015 PR/2015/772 The United States of America and Japan have joined the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs, adding two of the world’s biggest economies to a WIPO-administered registry that supports …
Geneva, December 16, 2014 PR/2014/771 Global patent filings extended a run of strong annual increases in 2013, underpinned by double-digit growth in China where about a third of the world’s 2.6 million patent applications were filed, followed by the United …
