Current and Emerging Issues Relating to Patents

This WIPO website provides the following links to other sites, articles, and studies containing a variety of views and information on non-exhaustive list of current and emerging issues relating to patents. As the debate about patents develops, further topics may be added and others might be removed from the WIPO website:

• Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing
• Biotechnology
• Competition and Patents
• Economic Development and Patents
• Inventions Made/Used in Outer Space
• Licensing and Technology Transfer
• Nanotechnology
• Protection of Traditional Knowledge
• R&D, Innovation and Patents
• Software and Business Methods
• Standards and Patents