WIPO in Three Minutes
Transcript
Innovation. The uniquely human force that drives mankind's progress. Without innovation, your phone wouldn't be smart. There'd be no GPS, no music on the go, and no HD video. Stories without special effects, no color, no sound, and unable to look inside the human body. Doctors would be in the dark.
The intellectual property system exists to encourage the innovators and creators who make the world a better place. The World Intellectual Property Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, helps them do this every day across the globe. WIPO provides a forum where governments debate and shape intellectual property laws such as copyright laws to adapt them to the changing needs of our global and digital society.
WIPO's goal is to make intellectual property work for everyone. WIPO operates international filing systems that make it easier to protect and promote inventions, brands, and designs across borders. Everyone from individual inventors and small businesses to the world's biggest companies can file a single application through WIPO's PCT, Madrid and Hague systems to apply for protection in countries across the world. This saves them time and money.
In the last 50 years, WIPO has processed over 4.5 million international patent, trademark, and design applications for everything from machine tools to medicines to solar panels. And when disagreements arise over IP, WIPO provides arbitration and mediation as an alternative to costly court proceedings. WIPO gives people the tools to use IP effectively, helping people in developing countries to make a living from their ingenuity and creativity. That means more opportunity and more jobs.
Innovation requires information. WIPO provides free access to IP information, including more than 55 million patent documents and more than 25 million records of trademarks and designs. And WIPO trains tens of thousands of people every year how to access, learn from, and use all this priceless information.
Since its inception over a 100 years ago, the global IP system overseen by WIPO has helped create an environment where innovation and creativity can flourish. That means more minds creating new technologies to conquer the world's problems. More music and more ways to listen to it, more art and culture, and more knowledge reaching us in ever increasing ways. Every day, creative people all over the world are finding new ways to improve our future. WIPO and the intellectual property system help make that happen.
Innovation. The uniquely human force that drives mankind's progress. Without innovation, your phone wouldn't be smart. There'd be no GPS, no music on the go, and no HD video. Stories without special effects, no color, no sound, and unable to look inside the human body. Doctors would be in the dark.
The intellectual property system exists to encourage the innovators and creators who make the world a better place. The World Intellectual Property Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, helps them do this every day across the globe. WIPO provides a forum where governments debate and shape intellectual property laws such as copyright laws to adapt them to the changing needs of our global and digital society.
WIPO's goal is to make intellectual property work for everyone. WIPO operates international filing systems that make it easier to protect and promote inventions, brands, and designs across borders. Everyone from individual inventors and small businesses to the world's biggest companies can file a single application through WIPO's PCT, Madrid and Hague systems to apply for protection in countries across the world. This saves them time and money.
In the last 50 years, WIPO has processed over 4.5 million international patent, trademark, and design applications for everything from machine tools to medicines to solar panels. And when disagreements arise over IP, WIPO provides arbitration and mediation as an alternative to costly court proceedings. WIPO gives people the tools to use IP effectively, helping people in developing countries to make a living from their ingenuity and creativity. That means more opportunity and more jobs.
Innovation requires information. WIPO provides free access to IP information, including more than 55 million patent documents and more than 25 million records of trademarks and designs. And WIPO trains tens of thousands of people every year how to access, learn from, and use all this priceless information.
Since its inception over a 100 years ago, the global IP system overseen by WIPO has helped create an environment where innovation and creativity can flourish. That means more minds creating new technologies to conquer the world's problems. More music and more ways to listen to it, more art and culture, and more knowledge reaching us in ever increasing ways. Every day, creative people all over the world are finding new ways to improve our future. WIPO and the intellectual property system help make that happen.
26. Oktober 2016