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WIPO Seminar Series on "The Economics of Intellectual Property"

Jan 24. 2012
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The next session of the WIPO Seminar Series on "The Economics of Intellectual Property", which will be held in Geneva, at the headquarters of WIPO, on February 15, 2012, from 1.30 to 3 p.m., in Room NB 1 and 2 (WIPO New Building). The working language will be English.

For this Seminar, a speaker has been secured on the topic "Private Copying and Fair Compensation: An Empirical Study of Copyright Levies in Europe":

  • Professor Martin Kretschmer, Professor of Information Jurisprudence and Director, Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management, University of Bournemouth, United Kingdom.

The program for the Seminar, the paper and other material can be found here.

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IP Filings Worldwide Rebound in 2010 despite Economic Turmoil

Dec 21. 2011
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A new report published by WIPO today shows that intellectual property (IP) filings worldwide rebounded strongly in 2010 after a considerable decline in 2009.

The recovery in IP filings was stronger than the overall economic recovery. Patent and trademark filings grew by 7.2% and 11.8% respectively in 2010 compared to growth of 5.1% in the global gross domestic product (GDP), with China and the United States (US) accounting for the greatest share of the increased filings.

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WIPO Report Shows Growing Demand for IP Changes Face of Innovation

Nov 14. 2011
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The World Intellectual Property Report 2011- The Changing Face of Innovation – a new WIPO publication – describes how ownership of intellectual property (IP) rights has become central to the strategies of innovating firms worldwide.

With global demand for patents rising from 800,000 applications in the early 1980s to 1.8 million in 2009, the Report concludes that growing investments in innovation and the globalization of economic activities are key drivers of this trend.

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WIPO Assemblies Provide Direction for Future Work

Oct 05. 2011
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Director General Welcomes Positive Engagement of Member States on Substantive Issues

Representatives of WIPO’s 184 member states, meeting at their annual Assemblies in Geneva from September 26 to October 5, 2011 took a landmark decision to call a diplomatic conference to agree an international treaty on the rights of performers in their audiovisual performances. They took stock of the Organization’s substantive work over the last year, provided direction for the future work program, and approved a program and budget for the Organization for the next biennium (2012/13).

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WIPO Member States Advance Toward Treaty to Protect Audiovisual Performances

Oct 04. 2011
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WIPO Director General Francis Gurry welcomed a decision today by WIPO’s General Assembly to convene a diplomatic conference in 2012 to agree an international treaty on the rights of performers in their audiovisual performances.

The convening of a diplomatic conference signals entry into the final phase of treaty negotiations.

This is a good day for actors, performers and the international copyright community, Mr. Gurry said. While some countries have domestic legislation that grants certain rights to performers in audiovisual works, there is a legal vacuum at the international level. Performers have not had control over how and when their performances are used abroad, nor any legal right to payment. Today’s decision brings us a big step closer to resolving this question.

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Director General Welcomes Advances in Normative Agenda, Outlines Future Challenges

Sep 27. 2011
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WIPO Director General Francis Gurry said that the international intellectual property (IP) community faces three major challenges in the coming years:

management of demand of IP applications, the migration of all cultural content to the Internet, and enhancing the capacity of least developed and developing countries to use the IP system for encouraging innovation and creativity. Mr. Gurry said that deep engagement and commitment would be required to address these challenges successfully. Mr. Gurry also welcomed progress in WIPO’s normative agenda, attributing this to closer collaboration and understanding among WIPO’s member states.

The atmosphere amongst Member States has greatly improved

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WIPO Releases Compilation of Recent IP Statistics

Sep 25. 2011
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WIPO released an overview of intellectual property (IP) activity in 2009, the last year where full data are available.

WIPO IP Facts and Figures 2011PDF, WIPO IP Facts and Figures covers patents, utility models, trademarks and industrial designs and serves as a quick reference guide for IP statistics gathered from 90 IP offices around the world. It shows that trademark protection – with over 3 million applications filed per year since 2005 – is the most sought-after form of IP globally. The China Trademark Office received a quarter of all trademark applications worldwide in 2009. Figures for industrial designs show significant growth rates, also owing to high filing activity in China.

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Conference on Copyright Documentation and Infrastructure

Sep 09. 2011
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In the framework of its Development Agenda the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is organizing a Conference on Copyright Documentation and Infrastructure.

The two‑day event which will take place on October 13 and 14, 2011 at the WIPO headquarters in Geneva, will bring together representatives of governments, national and international public institutions, academics and other stakeholders involved in the copyright industries to address the increasing importance of copyright documentation and infrastructure.

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Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy

Feb 09. 2011
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Photo: CTK Fotobanka (Czech Republic)

BySylvie FodorWhat do Interpol, Lego, Microsoft Office, Pirate Bay, Viagra, Vuitton and Wikileaks have in common?

This question brought over 800 delegates from more than 100 countries to Paris last week at the invitation of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The conference was organised under the patronage of Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic.

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Anti-Copyright Wave at WIPO

Nov 16. 2010
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BySylvie FodorOn 4 and 5 November 2010, WIPO hosted a conference on "Emerging Licensing Modalities in the Digital Age". Although the role of the organisation is to promote intellectual property, the most striking feature of the conference was its anti-copyright stance.

Almost fifteen years ago, in 1996, WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organisation, initiated the two so-called Internet treaties: the WIPO Performances and Phonogram Treaty (WPPT) and the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT).

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