The EPO, the European Patent Office, recently published the EPO Patent Index 2024, a collection of statistics that describes and captures the trend of patent applications filed with the EPO in 2024. The report reveals very interesting data, both in terms of the countries of origin of the applications and the sectors and trends that […]
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has recently published two reports that provide a detailed overview on innovation trends at global level. The first in the World Intellectual Property Indicators 2024, which collects data useful to understand the performance of patent, trademark and design filings; the second one is the Global Innovation Index 2024, which […]
It has been a year from the start of the European Unitary Patent system which brought many important innovations in the world of patent protection. The new unitary patent system, which includes the European unitary patent and the Unified Patent Court, was introduced on June 1, 2023 when the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court […]
After years of negotiations, on May 24, 2024 the WIPO Member States approved a new treaty, marking a historic turning point about the international discipline on patents regarding genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge. Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge Genetic resources, such as medical plants, agricultural crops and animal species, as well as traditional […]
April 26, 2025, marks World Intellectual Property Day, and this year’s theme will be music. The initiative...
