FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Washington, DC – Copyright industries make up 5.4% of GDP and represent 5.9% of national employment on average according to a comprehensive new study of 30 countries released by the World Intellectual Property Organization. WIPO Studies on the...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Join IIPI, USPTO, and speakers and participants from over twenty countries for a workshop on specialized intellectual property rights (IPR) courts and their role in promoting economic development. During the three-day event, IIPI and...
Before working in intellectual property, you had various banking and marketing positions in a number of private sectors. What motivated you to make the move from banking and marketing to intellectual property policy? In 1970, when I was in the third year of my studies...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 29 September 2011. Washington, DC. Box office revenues increase by approximately three percent each day thieves are prevented from illegally recording films in movie theaters during the opening weekend, according to a new study by the...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 13 September 2011. Washington, D.C. IIPI announces the release of a study examining the “TRIPS-Plus” provisions of the 14 free trade agreements signed and implemented by the United States since the start of the WTO in 1995. The overall aim of...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 18 August 2011. Washington, DC. Jorge H. Amigo Castaneda, founder and long-time head of Mexico’s influential patent office, has joined the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI) as Vice Chairman. The announcement was made today by...