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WIPO Report Shows Signs of Recovery Following Economic Crisis

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier this month, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released a report on intellectual property trends in 2008 and 2009 showing that innovative activity and demand for IP rights dipped during the global economic crisis, but began to recover this year. Commenting on the report, WIPO Director General Francis Gurry stated that "[t]he post-crisis innovation landscape will invariably look different from that of a decade ago," adding that "[w]hile the strength of the recovery remains uncertain, there will likely be a continuing geographic shift of innovative activity toward new players, especially in Asia." According to the...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).