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"Mother of all deals," highlighting its capacity to create a unified market of 2 billion people and account for nearly 25% of global GDP.

This sets out uniform criteria for customs action against imported goods suspected of being counterfeit or of having a false indication of origin.

WTR’s IP Office Innovation Ranking is a multi-year project to identify how IP offices are using and developing value-added, non-core offerings for users

As part of an awareness campaign on intellectual property (IP) protection in South-East Asia (SEA), we are gathering insights from IP experts across the 10 ASEAN countries. The interview will help highlight country-specific IP challenges and provide practical advice to support European SMEs.

In this blogpost, we focus on two copyright disputes, one involving Disney and Google, and the other concerning the Belgian series High Tides

The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) has suspended the acceptance of new acceleration requests under its SG Patents Fast and SG Trade Marks Fast acceleration programmes beginning on January 4, 2026, until further notice.

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has been named the world’s third most innovative intellectual property office, highlighting its sustained investments in digital systems and institutional capacity-building.

As of 1 January 2026, a new edition of the Nice Classification has entered into force: the 13th Edition (Nice 13 – Version 2026). All trademark applications filed from this date onward will be examined and classified in accordance with this new edition.

On 11 December 2025, the European Commission adopted the main Horizon Europe Work Programme for 2026–2027, with a total budget of €14 billion to support research and innovation aligned with the EU’s strategic priorities, including climate action, digital leadership and resilience.

The newly redesigned Intellectual Property Support for Small Businesses website has officially launched, marking the next evolution of the Ideas Powered for Business initiative.

The 2025 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard reveals a mixed picture for Europe’s innovation landscape. While EU companies continue to play a major role in global R&D and intellectual property creation, their overall R&D investment growth in 2024 remained behind.

A recently published study by the European Investment Bank (EIB), carried out in collaboration with the European Commission under the InvestEU Advisory Hub, examines why innovative start-ups and scale-ups relocate part of their activities outside the EU.

The EU Council authorised the signing of two agreements with Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

The government has agreed to prepare a Rp10 trillion (over US$597 million) intellectual property-based financing platform for creative industry players in 2026, making Indonesia the 15th country worldwide to adopt such a scheme.

The new report, jointly developed by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), provides a comprehensive overview of the quantum landscape using diverse data sources.

The reform aims to reduce delays, increase legal predictability, and align Argentina’s trade mark system with international standards.

The Thai Department of Intellectual Property (“DIP”) has updated the classification of goods and services in accordance with Nice Classification of Goods and Services (13th Edition), following the Notification of the Minister of Commerce on Classification of goods and services dated 14 November 2025

The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) is reviewing the SG Patents Fast and SG Trade Marks Fast acceleration programmes.

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