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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 new WIPO report shows. Relying on an original mapping of patents to fields of innovation, the ...

In the first half of 2015, WIPO Re:Search partner BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH) brokered 12 new agreements spanning four diseases and involving 17 members from nine countries. Out of the 89 collaborations established to date, 44 are currently active and four have advanced to the next stage of product development. Four new “User Members” ...

The international transfer of technology and technical know-how promotes economic development in poorer regions, while also helping to open new markets with increased social and political stability that can have global benefits, according to keynote speakers at a recent WIPO forum. McLean Sibanda, CEO of Innovation Hub in Pretoria, South Africa, ...

An agreement allowing European patent applications and patents to be validated with effect for Morocco entered into force on 1 March. This brings to 41 the number of countries for which patent protection can be obtained on the basis of a single European patent application. Morocco is the first country for ...

We are happy to announce that Toolip Valuation has been selected as one of the 20 start-up finalists for the second edition of the program "Adventure for HIPIIES", organized in collaboration between Adventure Network and BBVA Innovation Center. Adventure Network is an international network for accelerating ...

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 States of America (US) and Japan as the next-largest recipients. Amid an uneven pace of global economic ...

The EPO has achieved ISO 9001 certification for its quality management system, which covers the search, examination, opposition, limitation and revocation stages of its patent granting process. The certificate was presented to EPO President Benoît Battistelli by Mr Blechschmidt, managing director of the German Society for the Certification of Quality Assurance Systems ...

More than 2 million patent applications were filed at the world's five largest IP offices in 2013, an increase of 11% over 2012, according to a new report published jointly by the EPO, the Japan Patent Office, the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic ...

The long-awaited Opinions of the Advocate General on the legal challenges by Spain against the unitary patent package have been issued by the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU). The Advocate General has suggested that the CJEU should dismiss both challenges (C-146/13 and C147-13) pursued by Spain against the ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will host its first Cybersecurity Partnership Meeting on Friday, November 14, 2014, in Menlo Park, California. The meeting will serve as a collaborative forum for stakeholders seeking patent protection in the cybersecurity and network ...