Deputy Director General Hasan Kleib's message
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Who is behind the applications for patents, protecting inventions you use every day, like your mobile phone?
The trademarks of your favorite brands, from clothes to cars?
The industrial designs of your furniture at home and the packaging of your snacks, for example?
And even the geographical indications protecting the cheese you sprinkle over your pasta, or your morning coffee?
Behind all these intellectual property applications, you will find an IP examiner, who is working hard to ensure the quality of patents, trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications.
IP examiners determine whether these applications meet the legal requirements for protection or not.
Each year they tirelessly review, research and determine more than 20 million IP applications, fueling all industries.
It is high time their key role in ensuring a healthy global IP system is recognized and celebrated.
I call on you to join us on November 11, 2025 in celebrating IP examiners everywhere.
I want to personally extend my heartfelt appreciation to the unsung heroes behind intellectual property.
Thank you, dear IP examiners everywhere, for your efforts in keeping innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship booming for all of us to enjoy and benefit from!
On November 11, 2025 we celebrate you!
Who is behind the applications for patents, protecting inventions you use every day, like your mobile phone?
The trademarks of your favorite brands, from clothes to cars?
The industrial designs of your furniture at home and the packaging of your snacks, for example?
And even the geographical indications protecting the cheese you sprinkle over your pasta, or your morning coffee?
Behind all these intellectual property applications, you will find an IP examiner, who is working hard to ensure the quality of patents, trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications.
IP examiners determine whether these applications meet the legal requirements for protection or not.
Each year they tirelessly review, research and determine more than 20 million IP applications, fueling all industries.
It is high time their key role in ensuring a healthy global IP system is recognized and celebrated.
I call on you to join us on November 11, 2025 in celebrating IP examiners everywhere.
I want to personally extend my heartfelt appreciation to the unsung heroes behind intellectual property.
Thank you, dear IP examiners everywhere, for your efforts in keeping innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship booming for all of us to enjoy and benefit from!
On November 11, 2025 we celebrate you!
November 6, 2025