China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Releases Global IP Protection Index Report 2025

The addition of AI-related patent activity as a formal indicator signals that IP measurement is being reoriented toward frontier technology, which matters for how innovation capacity gets compared across the 25 covered economies. For RWA and tokenization markets, this is a reminder that IP is increasingly framed as an economic asset class rather than a purely legal one, a framing that underpins efforts to make intangible assets measurable and, eventually, financeable. Whether the index's expanded scope gains traction as a reference point beyond its publisher is the open question.