The Law Society Award winning Global Intellectual Property Index (GIPI) created by Z/Yen for leading law firm Taylor Wessing was published in May 2008. May 2009 saw the publication of GIPI 2.

GIPI provides a comprehensive assessment of how the intellectual property (IP) regimes of important jurisdictions compared with each other. Each is assessed in relation to obtaining, exploiting, enforcing and attacking the main types of IP rights. GIPI 2 includes a number of additions – there are now 24 jurisdictions covered.

GIPI 2 is led by the same six countries as led GIPI 1 but with a slight reordering below the UK which is still ranked 1st. Australia and the Netherlands are promoted to tier 1 and Poland falls to the bottom tier. Ratings across the board have tended to improve, indicating generally greater satisfaction with the IP regimes of most jurisdictions. A copy of the report is available here.

GIPI 2 follows the success of GIPI 1 in receiving extensive press coverage and the questionnaire is still online collecting responses for GIPI 3 – please participate here.