What this service is:

World Intellectual Property Report helps you keep your competitive edge with comprehensive, reliable information on fast-changing global developments relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other areas of intellectual property law.

What it helps you do:

• Get to the heart of IP-related legal, legislative, and regulatory news and trends from around the world, including important late-breaking developments in protection and enforcement.
• Share in the expertise of your professional colleagues. Commentary and analysis by leading international experts give you a clear perspective.
• Understand the implications of worldwide intellectual property developments for the companies and clients you advise or represent. Monitor as well as anticipate changes.
• Reduce your research time and expense. The Report's wide-ranging coverage and all-inclusive country content helps you from overlooking significant matters.
• Cut through clutter with the right level of data and detail.

Product Structure

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Web notification is published continually. Print notification is issued monthly. Web current reports are archived to January 1997. E-mail summaries, providing the highlights and table of contents for each report, with URLs to full text articles and documents are also available.

• Appellations of origin
• Computer software
• Copyrights
• Data privacy
• Databases
• Geographical indications
• Global information network
• Industrial designs
• Information infrastructure
• Integrated circuits
• Online information
• Passing-off
• Patents
• Service marks
• Trade secrets
• Trademarks
• Unfair competition
• Utility models