Intellectual Property (IP) News from Brazil – September, 2022

Dear Sir/Madam,

We would like to keep you informed of what is going on in Brazil and abroad in terms of Innovation, Intellectual Property,
Technology Transfer and related matters. As part of our dedication to helping our clients stay up-to-date on the ever-changing
landscape as it relates to Intellectual Property (IP), we’ve compiled the following highlights of changes to patent, trademark, and
copyright operations around the world.
The following are a few recent updates identified in the present month.

Update Highlights

• Global Innovation Index’s Global Science & Technology Clusters:
  East Asia Dominates Top Ranking

  Four of the world’s five biggest science and technology clusters are located in East Asia – one in Japan, two in China, one
  in Republic of Korea and the fifth in the United States – according to an early release from the 2022 edition of WIPO’s Global Innovation Index (GII).Each year, the GII ranks the top-level innovative capacity of around 130 countries and economies around the world. In a pre-release ahead of its official
  September 29, 2022, global launch, the Global Innovation Index “Science and Technology Cluster” chapter  looks to the ground to identify the highest local
  concentration of science and technology development.

  Cluster ranking – The GII reveals the world ’s top 10 0 science and technology (S&T) clusters and identif ies the most
  S&T- intensive top global clusters.

• Tokyo–Yokohama continues to lead the top 100 S&T clusters
  Among the top 100, Tokyo–Yokohama (Japan) is the top-performing cluster, followed by
  Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou (China and Hong Kong, China), Beijing (China), Seoul (Republic
  of Korea) and San Jose–San Francisco (United States) (see Appendix Table 3).
  The top 10 clusters remain the same as last year, with one difference: Shanghai and Suzhou have
  now merged into one cluster.

• The largest increases in the ranking came from three Chinese clusters – Zhengzhou
  (+15 positions), Qingdao (+12) and Xiamen (+12). Berlin (+4) in Germany, Istanbul (+4) in Türkiye,
  Kanazawa (+4) in Japan, Ankara (+3) in Türkiye, Daegu (+3) in the Republic of Korea and Mumbai
  (+3) in India also advanced strongly this year.
• Chinese clusters experienced the largest increases in S&T output too, with the median increase
  equating to +13.9 percent and with China hosting the fastest growing clusters – Qingdao
  (+25.2 percent) and Wuhan (+21.9 percent).1 Other clusters in middle-income economies, besides
  those in China, also experienced strong growth, including Istanbul (Türkiye, +7.3 percent),
  Chennai (India, +7.1 percent) and Delhi (India, +5.2 percent).
• China is now on a par with the United States in terms of the number of top 100 S&T clusters
• In 2022, as in previous years, the top 100 S&T clusters are highly concentrated in three regions,
  Northern America, Europe and Asia and, especially, in two countries: the United States and China
  (see Map 1 above).
• For the first time, China hosts as many clusters as the United States, with 21 each. Germany follows,
  with 10 clusters in the top 100, with Cologne and Munich as
  the two largest clusters. Japan has five clusters in the top 100, with Tokyo–Yokohama and Osaka–
  Kobe–Kyoto also represented in the top 10 clusters overall.
  Mirroring last year’s results, with the exception of China, only five middle-income economies have
  clusters in the top 100:
  ⦁ Brazil (1 cluster), with São Paulo, the sole top 100 S&T cluster in Latin America;
  ⦁ India (4), with Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai, as last year, and Chennai making the top 100 for
  the first time;
  ⦁ the Islamic Republic of Iran (1), with Tehran;
  ⦁ Türkiye (2), with Istanbul and Ankara; and
  ⦁ the Russian Federation (1), with Moscow.
  It is notable that, among the aforementioned clusters, Ankara and Istanbul, the two Turkish
  clusters, and Mumbai have made significant jumps forward.

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