Every year on 26 April, the world comes together to celebrate World Intellectual Property Day, an initiative created by WIPO to highlight the value of ideas and the rights that protect them. This year, the…
Every year on the 26 April, we celebrate the World Intellectual Property Day to draw attention to the important role of intellectual property rights (IP). This year, the official theme is “IP and Youth: Innovating…
On April 26, we celebrate the World Intellectual Property Day (WIPD), as we do every year. The focus will lie on the crucial role that intellectual property plays in encouraging creativity and innovation. For this…
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in cooperation with Cornell University and INSEAD, released the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2020 with its main conclusions regarding the impact of the…
At the end of May 2020, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced the launch of WIPO PROOF - a new online business service that provides tamper-proof evidence of the existence at a point in…
World Intellectual Property Day and 50th anniversary of the WIPO Convention on 26 April 2020The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) celebrates World Intellectual Property Day (World IP Day) every April…
Two new member states are accessing the Madrid Protocol for the international registration of marks. The Protocol will enter into force in Canada on 17 June 2019, and Brazil is expected to follow late in 2019. …
Every year on April 26 we celebrate the World Intellectual Property Day organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This year’s theme is “Reach for Gold: IP and Sports”. The…
On 3 December 2018, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published its annual report on World Intellectual Property Indicators 2018 (WIPI). The report analyzes the IP activity around the world in…
On 5 November 2018, Canada became a contracting party to the Hague Agreement. As of this day, the users of Hague System are newly allowed to designate Canada in their international design application. Source:…
On 15 August 2018, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published its Information Notice No. 12/2018. In this Notice, WIPO released a new version of the 11th edition of the International…
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Organization (EUIPO) have recently published their statistics regarding information on applications and cases filed…
This year’s World Intellectual Property Day is dedicated to female innovators, honouring a significant number of women that are pushing the boundaries in the fields of science, technology, and design and…
The new year brought some changes at WIPO and the EUIPO which are taking effect on 1 January 2018. Here is a brief summary of the most important ones for all trademark practitioners.Source: Pixabay Madrid…
As of December 2017, ROMARIN, Mardid e-Alert and Madrid Realtime Status will take the back seat as Madrid Monitor becomes WIPO´s only tool for tracking international trademark registrations.Source: www.wipo.int/ma…
The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, better known as UDRP, offers a sustainable alternative for litigation by means of standardized dispute resolution for cybersquatting cases. In order to enhance…
On 1 June 2017, WIPO introduced a new system of tracking international trademark applications: and in comes the Madrid Monitor! The Madrid Monitor has now become a one-stop shop for searching and monitoring the…
Every quarter WIPO updates IP professionals with all novelties in the Madrid System. Published on 18 April 2017, this year´s first newsletter starts with the recollection of WIPO´s record-breaking 2016 and the…
Do you know what is the link between the invention of the telephone and intellectual property? We all know Alexander Graham Bell as the one responsible for creating this groundbreaking item. However, evidence…
On 15 March 2017, WIPO published a press release, showing their 2016 in numbers. And there was a lot to celebrate, as 2016 marked a record-breaking number of patent, trademark and design applications, and a…