The 17th edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) – the global benchmark that rates the performance of countries by “their capacity for, and success in, innovation” – has just been published by the World Intellectual Property Organization, in partnership with the Portulans Institute, various private partners and a network of […]
The objective of the ‘Designs Package’ is to enhance the current system of design protection in order to strengthen, simplify and harmonise it. Indeed, Directive 98/71 of 13 October 1998 on the legal protection of designs and Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs needed to be […]
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published a new report on patents in the field of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), which highlights a significant increase in inventions in this domain (54,000 GenAI-related patent applications since 2013, with more than 25% of these being filed in 2023 alone). Generative artificial intelligence […]