With Innovation Becoming Increasingly Collaborative and Transnational, What Does This Mean For Patents?

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized agency of the United Nations that provides a global forum for intellectual property policy, services, information, and cooperation, recently released a report which concluded “that innovative activity has grown increasingly collaborative and transnational” in recent years. Given the globalization of trade, business, entertainment, and virtually every other aspect of our lives, it should come as no surprise, then, that innovation and the process of inventing should follow suit.