World Intellectual Property Day
World Intellectual Property Day offers a unique opportunity to join with others around the globe to consider how intellectual property (IP) helps the global arts scene to flourish and enables the technological innovation that drives human progress. The campaign is also an opportunity to highlight the role that IP rights, such as, patents, trademarks, industrial designs, copyright, play in encouraging innovation and creativity.
World IP Day emphasizes the importance of a balanced IP system to recognize and reward inventors and creators for their work and ensure that society benefits from their creativity and ingenuity. IP rights enable researchers, inventors, businesses, designers, artists and others to legally protect their innovative and creative outputs and secure an economic return from them.
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2024 World Intellectual Property Day campaign
Let’s celebrate World Intellectual Property Day on April 26, 2024.
World IP Day 2024 - IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity
World Intellectual Property Day 2024 is an opportunity to explore how IP encourages and can amplify the impact of the innovative and creative solutions we need to build our common future.
World Intellectual Property Day 2024 is an opportunity to explore
how IP encourages and can amplify the impact of the innovative and creative solutions we need to build our common future.
how IP encourages and can amplify the impact of the innovative and creative solutions we need to build our common future.
To build our common future and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we need to re-think how we live, work and play.
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About World IP Day
In 2000, WIPO's member states designated April 26 – the day on which the WIPO Convention came into force in 1970 – as World IP Day with the aim of increasing general understanding of IP.
Since then, World IP Day has been a unique opportunity to celebrate the contributions made by inventors and creators around the world and to explore how IP contributes to a flourishing of music and the arts and to the technological innovation that helps shape our world.