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International administrator connecting assessments to commercial intermediaries
The World Intellectual Property Organization administers the WIPO ALERT advertising-list service and the developing ALERT-PAY payment-notice initiative. In these routes it distributes or checks information while national contributors and private recipients retain important substantive decisions.
For ALERT, WIPO screens advertising-user eligibility and distributes national lists. Its ALERT-PAY presentation describes completeness checks, notices and review administration. The deck reports a November 2024–August 2025 manual pilot with six rights holders, two unnamed payment providers, seventeen actions and thirty-five sites; 71% were reported offline or with goods removed. That mixed outcome is not a permanent-shutdown count or independent causal estimate. Mastercard and PayPal named elsewhere in the presentation are not identified as those anonymous pilot providers.
World Intellectual Property Organization → WIPO ALERT-PAY
Presentation assigns hosting, completeness/attestation checks, notices and review administration to WIPO; contested-merits decision rules and recipient restoration duties remain not obtained.
World Intellectual Property Organization → WIPO ALERT authorized advertising users
FAQ permits WIPO to assess genuine advertising-business eligibility before access. Approval for any named applicant is not shown.
World Intellectual Property Organization → WIPO ALERT — advertising distribution
WIPO distributes national lists and disclaims making its own infringement determinations.
World Intellectual Property Organization → WIPO Expected Result2.3 — broad budget scope
WIPO reports CHF3.207m pre-IPSAS actual expenditure for ER2.3 in2024/25. It is not a Pay project cost or bank transfer; broader sector totals are non-additive context. Financial details: value: 3,207,000; currency: CHF; kind: reported ER2.3 pre-IPSAS expenditure; not Pay cost; period: 2024/25
World Intellectual Property Organization → ALERT-PAY manual pilot
November2024–August2025
Deck reports November2024–August2025 pilot, six rightsholders/two unnamed PSPs,17actions/35sites and71% sites offline OR goods removed. No closure numerator, permanent effect, causal attribution, lost revenue or independent evaluation established.
World Intellectual Property Organization → Mastercard
June2026 presentation; posted16June2026
WIPO slide4 names this provider in the programme description. Slide7 does not identify either historical pilot PSP; no provider-executed agreement acquired.
WIPO ALERT: contribution, distribution and challenge authority ↗
WIPO ALERT-PAY: the programme, the described process, and what its pilot measures ↗
WIPO ALERT carries national assessments to approved advertising users. Contributors retain responsibilities and access choices; users choose which lists to use. Review begins in the relevant national process.
Open diagram →The proposed process carries authorized claims through WIPO formalities to payment providers. WIPO reports a manual pilot; its programme separately plans deployment.
Open diagram →World Intellectual Property Organization → provides distribution infrastructure → WIPO ALERT — advertising distribution
WIPO distributes national lists and disclaims making its own infringement determinations.
World Intellectual Property Organization → screens and approves advertising access → WIPO ALERT authorized advertising users
FAQ permits WIPO to assess genuine advertising-business eligibility before access. Approval for any named applicant is not shown.
World Intellectual Property Organization → administers formalities, notices and review requests → WIPO ALERT-PAY
Presentation assigns hosting, completeness/attestation checks, notices and review administration to WIPO; contested-merits decision rules and recipient restoration duties remain not obtained.
World Intellectual Property Organization → names provider in programme description → Mastercard
June2026 presentation; posted16June2026
Reported by the cited source
WIPO slide4 names this provider in the programme description. Slide7 does not identify either historical pilot PSP; no provider-executed agreement acquired.
World Intellectual Property Organization → names provider in programme description → PayPal
June2026 presentation; posted16June2026
Reported by the cited source
WIPO slide4 names this provider in the programme description. Slide7 does not identify either historical pilot PSP; no provider-executed agreement acquired.
World Intellectual Property Organization → reports manual pilot and composite removals → ALERT-PAY manual pilot
November2024–August2025
Reported by the cited source
Deck reports November2024–August2025 pilot, six rightsholders/two unnamed PSPs,17actions/35sites and71% sites offline OR goods removed. No closure numerator, permanent effect, causal attribution, lost revenue or independent evaluation established.
World Intellectual Property Organization → reports broader pre-IPSAS expenditure → WIPO Expected Result2.3 — broad budget scope
Reported by the cited source
WIPO reports CHF3.207m pre-IPSAS actual expenditure for ER2.3 in2024/25. It is not a Pay project cost or bank transfer; broader sector totals are non-additive context.
Financial details: value: 3,207,000; currency: CHF; kind: reported ER2.3 pre-IPSAS expenditure; not Pay cost; period: 2024/25