RNIIS in the United Nations (2025)
On July 11, 2025, was held at the headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (Geneva, Switzerland) as part of the 66th session of the General Assembly of WIPO (July 8-17, 2025, more than 1,600 participants from 194 WIPO Member States, almost 100 heads of IP departments) the annual traditional consultative meeting Director General Mr. Daren Tan in the WIPO Partnership Dialogue with the heads and experts of 68 accredited non-governmental organizations from around the world on intellectual property issues for the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
In his report, Daren Tang elaborated on the assessment of the global state of intellectual property (hereinafter referred to as IP), highlighting several trends related to the IP economy and its importance for innovative development:
— despite the difficulties and unfavorable factors, attitudes towards IP in society are changing: innovation, creativity and IP are now considered as the main aspects for innovative development (more than 40 IP applications are submitted every minute in the world, with more than 20 million applications annually since 2018, including more than 23 million in 2023; seven out of ten IP applications come from Asia, Africa and Latin America; in the creative economy, global music revenues grew fastest in 2024 in the Middle East and North Africa, in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America);
— as innovations and digital technologies are created and implemented, the transition from tangible to intangible assets becomes important: According to WIPO estimates, investments in intangible assets are growing almost four times faster than investments in tangible assets, including in the United States - almost 15% of GDP; in 2024, the value of intangible assets in the world reached almost 80 trillion US dollars (in 2023 - more than 60 trillion US dollars, which exceeds the value of the world's leading economies combined);
— there is a further digitalization of innovations: one third of all patents out of 3 million patents issued in the world relate to digital technologies, including AI technologies;
—the role of WIPO as a global forum for setting standards in the field of intellectual property is growing.
At the end of his speech, the Head of WIPO noted that "Our efforts to ensure that intellectual property is considered as a financial asset, as well as to move the issues of intellectual property valuation, security and financing, are also yielding tangible results. We have conducted a number of studies on practices in the member States and have begun to interact with accounting, valuation and financial communities on this issue. We will need your help in this area, as this is still a novelty for many financiers. We are looking for pilot projects with you to make this area the main one."
Vladimir Lopatin, Scientific Director of the Russian Research Institute of Intellectual Property, Chairman of the Interstate and National Technical Committees for Standardization "Intellectual Property" MTK 550/TK 481, Chairman of the AIUR Intellectual Property Commission, who has been since 2019, took part in the meeting from Russia and other EAEU and CIS countries, he is a UN expert.
Before the meeting, all participants were given (in English) the final document – recommendations of the XVI International Forum "Innovative Development through the Intellectual Property Market" (04/24/2025, Moscow), a special issue of the journal "Intellectual Property Law" with the materials of the Forum, the anniversary booklet of the Russian Research Institute with information on the results of 20 years of work (the only specialized scientific organization on intellectual property issues in the post-Soviet space, which will be 20 years old in 2025). Russian languageis the official language of the United Nations (the Convention on the Establishment of WIPO in 1967 was signed in 4 languages, including Russian), but was excluded from the working languages of the meeting, so the translation of the abstracts of his speech in English was also distributed to all participants of the meeting.
In his presentation "Intellectual property as a financial asset in the economy of a multipolar World", Vladimir Lopatin noted, that the stated in 2024 the initiative of WIPO to organize the second Global Conversation of Innovative and Financial Communities on the assessment of intellectual Property and its use as a financial asset, the participants of the XVI International Forum "Innovative Development through the Intellectual Property Market" (04/24/2025), (co-organized and directed by the RNIIIS, with the participation of more than 800 representatives from 26 countries around the world), discussed the related problems in detail. The final document and recommendations of this forum were sent to the UN, WIPO, WTO, UNESCO, SCO and other international and interstate organizations, as well as to all CIS and BRICS countries.
In order to achieve the stated goals of developing a more coordinated and holistic intellectual property policy in terms of the formation, valuation of intangible assets and their use as an investment resource, while maintaining continuity, in accordance with previously stated topics for discussion in the framework of the Partnership Dialogue, in the presentation he highlighted several fundamental problems and recommendations for their solution.
The Great Eurasian Partnership and the United Nations. Over the past 10 years, the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been implemented and the Great Eurasian Partnership has been formed as a new center of world order in a multipolar world that unites 20 CIS, SCO and BRICS countries. With the accession of Indonesia in 2025 is part of the BRICS -53 percent of the world's population, where, with a very high and high human development index (HDI 0.7-1.0), the average level of the innovation development index (IIR) is 29%. Inequality in the ratio of the share of the population to the share of global GDP in terms of per capita with the EU and the USA (by 5 to 8 times) tends to increase.
Why are they smart but not rich? As follows from the WIPO Report "On the situation of Intellectual Property in the world for 2024", scientific, technological and production capabilities of countries are assessed through three parameters: peer-reviewed scientific publications, patent applications and patents, and exports of industrial products.
At the same time, according to the report, based on the predominance of information indicators through which developing countries report on their achievements, these data have been concentrated over the past 20 years in eight leading countries (60 percent of scientific publications, 80 percent of international patents and 50 percent of exports).
In order to reduce socio-economic inequality between developed and developing countries with the increasing role of IP in the digital economy (where the majority of sales are copyrights and related rights, trade secrets), it is necessary to adjust the targets and indicators of the UN SDGs in the field of innovation (Goals No. 8; No. 9, No. 10; No. 17), the Global Innovation Index, Strategies and Programs for Innovative Development from information indicators (publications, patent applications and patents) to economic indicators (creation of added value from IP turnover, IP share in pricing, IP share in asset capitalization, IP share in attracting investments, share of royalties, etc.).
Intellectual property and centralization of government regulation. While 98 countries have established unified structures combining the functions of government regulation in relation to all major categories of intellectual property objects within a single government agency/organization, other countries continue to decentralize government regulation in this area, which is one of the main reasons for the low level and quality of legal regulation in the field of IP in these countries.
As part of the preparation of the WIPO annual Report "On the situation of Intellectual Property in the World" and the Global Innovation Index, it is advisable to highlight: - the dependence of the level and quality of legal regulation in the field of IP and success in innovative development on the level of centralization of state regulation and administration in this area, - as well as the ratio and impact of the creative economy (where the main customer of development is private business) on the effectiveness of R&D (the main customer is the state) as the main way of scientific and technological progress.
Intellectual property and standardization. The IP field includes three subject areas of regulation, where WIPO traditionally has priority in regulating the legal protection of intellectual property through international treaties (27) and WIPO standards. At the same time, the central area related to the formation of the IP economy/market has insufficient regulation.
In the context of fragmentation and conflicts of national IP legislation and insufficient legal regulation in the field of IP commercialization, the role of standardization of IP management processes in ensuring competitiveness and technological sovereignty is sharply increasing. The relevant national and interstate TC "Intellectual Property" have been operating in the Russian Federation and the CIS since 2009/ 2017 and the first national system of standards in this area (more than 30 standards) has been created.
The signing of an agreement between WIPO and ISO/IEC is overdue, with the assignment of IP management and economics issues to priority areas of standardization ensuring national competitiveness, as well as the creation of an international TC for standardization "Intellectual Property" within the framework of ISO/IEC, taking into account the experience of the Russian Federation and the CIS.
At the end of the presentation, he drew attention to the fact that in order to return to a unipolar world order, attempts are continuing through a "rules-based order" in the interests of the United States and the countries of the "collective West" to further politicize relations not only in the economy, but also in the fields of sports, culture, healthcare, informatization, artificial intelligence, music and intellectual property. Thus, within the framework of the theme of the 2025 International Intellectual Property Day announced by WIPO, "Intellectual Property and Music. Feel the rhythm of intellectual property", for performing Russian song It is no coincidence that at the Kazan summit of the BRICS countries in October 2024.
With the participation of 35 countries (more than 60 percent of the world's population), proposals for UN reform were unanimously supported. The countries of the Greater Eurasian Partnership for the stable work of the United Nations and its institutions, including the global WIPO system, for the sustainable and secure development of all countries of the world based on international law!s and music by Russian composers, performers in these countries are subject to fines and arrests, administrative and criminal prosecution, which in the context of the crisis of international law and UN institutions for its enforcement confirm the relevance and necessity of their reform.
On the sidelines of the in-session meetings in Geneva, working meetings were also held on the organization and development of cooperation between the head of the RNIIIS and the heads of delegations and heads of diplomatic missions to the United Nations from the CIS countries, as well as with the heads of the EAPO and representatives of a number of WIPO departments.
RNIIIS Press Service