Singaporean Daren elected to take helm of global patent agency: UN

The result still needs to be confirmed during the agency's extraordinary general assembly, but that is traditionally a formality. Wednesday's process had been expected to take far longer, with a separate round of voting to eliminate each of the five other candidates. But after a first round of voting Wednesday morning, during which a delegation from each of WIPO's 83 member states walked to the front of the room to put their ballot in the voting box, all but two candidates dropped out.