Brazil’s National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) is extending the policy logic of its Green Patent fast-track programme into trade marks, with accelerated examination expected for applications covering goods or services linked to sustainable agriculture, clean energy and environmental recycling. For companies using brands to identify green technologies, circular-economy services or low-carbon product lines, the trade mark filing process may now carry a clearer industrial-policy dimension.The same package also responds to a long-standing problem in Brazil: trade mark squatting. A...
As the 2026 WIPO-EUIPO IP Management Clinic for green and sustainability-focused SMEs approaches its 10 June application deadline, a clearer support map is emerging for green-tech companies in the EU, EFTA countries and Ukraine. WIPO says the program will help selected businesses work on IP identification, protection, commercialization and international growth, while the EUIPO’s 2026 SME Fund continues to show where the filing tools sit in practice: 75% reimbursement for EU-level and national or regional trade mark and design fees, and 50% reimbursement for basic application, designation...
The Japan Patent Office has released its patent information analysis based on the Green Transformation Technologies Inventory (GXTI), using a common search framework to map global filing trends in GX technologies from 2010 to 2021. The JPO says Japanese applicants remain highly competitive in internationally filed inventions across GX overall, with particular strength in solar photovoltaic power generation, energy-saving buildings and secondary batteries; in secondary batteries, Japanese applicants also led in highly cited international patent families. The point of the exercise is not just...
UNECA has sharpened the debate around Africa’s frontier-tech economy. In its 2026 policy messaging on innovation and emerging technologies, the issue is no longer framed as a simple shortage of research activity. The harder point is that too much potentially valuable science still reaches journals, conferences and pitch decks before it reaches a defensible commercialization pathway.That warning lands differently in Egypt, South Africa and Nigeria, where research capacity, startup activity and investor attention already cluster. For nanotechnology, advanced materials, biotech platforms and...
The German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) reports a broad rise in demand for IP protection in 2025. Patent applications reached 62,050, up 4.7%; trade mark applications climbed to 96,328, an increase of 19.8%; and utility model filings rose 19.3% to 11,427. Growth in patents was supported by digital technologies, electric mobility and battery innovation, while the sharp increase in trade marks was linked in part to Chinese applicants and online-platform activity. Applications from China reached 10,027, up 196.2% year on year.The figures point to more than a cyclical rebound. Germany...
