the surprise of governments and civil society was an idea originally brought to WIPO by a group of companies in February of this year. Now they appear to be encouraging others to join in. Launch of
is set to take place on 7-8 April and its provisional programme [pdf] includes six themes. The event on the WIPO calendar is here. The conference was agreed upon by the WIPO Committee on Development
techniques, agricultural techniques that maximise productivity on marginal lands, as well as foods, beverages, and medicinal remedies derived from local flora and fauna. In May 2024, the WIPO Treaty on
China’s ZTE Corporation overtook its crosstown rival Huawei Technologies as the biggest filer of international patent applications via WIPO in 2016 and U.S.-based Qualcomm Inc. claimed third position
on the rise and the proportion relating to new generic top-level domain names is growing, it found. Fashion and banking are the prominent areas for disputes. WIPO manages the Uniform Domain Name
Francis Gurry, director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in Beijing. The pair met during a “high level meeting” on IP rights relating to the Belt and Road Initiative, which is