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At the headquarters of the UN's World International Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva, delegates from 43 countries signed a new world patent-law treaty, and 64 other countries plan to follow suit soon.The treaty should make life simpler for inventors.

Companies have become more eager to create and exploit intellectual property: WIPO notes that spending on research and development has risen even faster than patent applications.

It also enables Chinese firms to improve the terms of their licensing arrangements with foreign companies.One of the most pronounced changes in the nature of innovation is the dramatic internationalisation of R&D, says Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, an economist at WIPO.

Those firms that lack patents are thus disadvantaged.Countries increasingly complain to the World Trade Organisation and the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) that the patent system discriminates against them.

WIPO has appointed an arbitrator and a decision is expected on September 16th.This is the latest in a string of high-profile domain-name disputes between famous people and lesser mortals, who are accused of registering Internet domain names with the express purpose of extorting hefty sums from the domain's "rightful" owner.

Take the Global Innovation Index (GII) released on July 3rd from INSEAD, a French business school, and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

Where the INSEAD/WIPO report does well is in assembling a hefty page of indicators for each country, which can be individually examined and compared.

The number of patent applications in the world rose from around 800,000 in the early 1980s to 1.8m in 2009, according to the World Intellectual Property Report 2011, newly published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation WIPOO).

In 2008-09 Japanese geeks filed for 4% more "international patents" under the Patent Co-operation Treaty, while Chinese nerds filed about 30% more than the previous year, according to a recent report by the World Intellectual Property Organisation WIPOO).

Not quite, argues the UN's World Intellectual Property Organisation WIPOO).

Most developed countries have signed up to the WIPO Copyright Treaty of 1996, and have implemented it in laws that make it illegal for anyone except a DRM vendor to remove DRM.