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Public awareness of intellectual property (IP) rights continues to grow globally, and new findings from WIPO Pulse 2025 shed light on evolving consumer perceptions in India and across the Asia-Pacific region.

On January 7, 2026, India’s Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks (CGPDTM) issued a public notice warning against several popular online platforms offering trademark registration services, including 'makeinindia.com', 'cleartax.in', and 'startupwala.com'.

A new checklist has been published to support the registration of craft and industrial geographical indications (CIGIs).

Applications are now open for the WIPO Global Awards 2026, an international initiative recognising small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups that successfully use intellectual property (IP) to create economic and societal value.

The Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) Support Facility supports regional and national innovation stakeholders and public authorities by fostering strong interregional innovation ecosystems and reinforcing the objectives of the I3 Instrument.

The European Parliament has thrown its support behind plans for a new EU-wide corporate legal framework aimed at enabling faster company creation and facilitating cross-border expansion within the European Union.

"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.

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.

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.

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.