WIPO in Focus: Beyond Treaties, Toward a Market-Driven IP System

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The episode discusses the transformation of WIPO into a service-driven global IP platform with insights from Lisa Jorgenson.

Send us Fan Mail The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has been undergoing a quiet but meaningful transformation over the last 5-plus years. From a more traditional UN-style body into a service-driven, operationally focused global IP platform, WIPO is helping the entire global IP community. As Lisa Jorgenson, who is a Deputy Director of WIPO, explained in her recent conversation with Gene Quinn, the organization’s fee-based funding model fundamentally reshapes its priorities—for...

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Host: Gene Quinn

Guest: Lisa Jorgenson

Topics covered

• WIPO
• intellectual property
• global IP community
• fee-based funding model
• transformation

Keywords

• WIPO
• intellectual property
• Gene Quinn
• Lisa Jorgenson
• global IP
• funding model
• transformation

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Organizations: World Intellectual Property Organization

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