World Intellectual Property Day 2024: It is also known as World IP Day. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, it is necessary to be safe; therefore, WIPO is not organising any physical events, and encourages the community of World IP Day to celebrate via virtual channels. The day is celebrated to make people aware of how intellectual property (IP) rights encourage innovation and creativity. This year, World IP Day puts innovation and supports the efforts to create a green future. It is a need to care for our earth our home.
It was established by the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO). It promotes the role of IP in stimulating innovation and creativity.
In fact, World Intellectual Property Day provides an opportunity for IP offices, inventors and enterprises, whether big or small to discuss and connect with each other about the emerging various innovations that will help shape the world and also improve the lives of people.
World Intellectual Property Day 2024: Theme
The official theme for World Intellectual Property Day 2024 is “IP and the SDGs: Building Our Common Future with Innovation and Creativity”.
World Intellectual Property Day 2023 will be celebrated around the theme 'Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity.' According to the official website, "For generations, women have shaped our world with their ingenuity and creativity. Women everywhere are driving scientific breakthroughs, Setting new creative trends, building businesses and transforming our world. So we need to encourage more women to use the IP system to protect and add value to their work. That way, we can develop more and better technologies that work for everyone, establish more thriving woman-led businesses Support economic recovery and build back better."
Last year the theme of World Intellectual Property Day is “IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future”. It celebrates youth-led innovation and creativity. IP rights can support young people's goals, helping them transform their ideas into reality, generate income, create jobs and make a positive impact on the world around them.
The campaign celebrates several inspiring inventors and creators across the globe who are working for a green future that is on cleaner alternatives to legacy fossil-fuel-based technologies and better and more sustainable food and natural resource management systems. It will also focus on how innovation, development and diffusion of eco-friendly technologies will enable to tackle the climate crisis and build a green future.
World IP Day message by WIPO Director General Francis Gurry – "Together we can innovate for a greener, brighter and more sustainable future."
The theme of World Intellectual Property Day 2019 is “Reach for Gold: IP and Sports”.
The 2019 theme focusses on the world of sports. It explores how innovation, creativity and intellectual property (IP) rights that encourage and protect them support the development and worldwide enjoyment of sports. It will empower the financial model of all sporting events worldwide. IP rights are at the heart of the global sports ecosystem and all the commercial relationships that make sports happen and also allow us to tune in to sporting action.
It provides an opportunity for IP offices, inventors and enterprises to connect with each other and discuss how IP contributes to the flourishing of innovations that shape our world and improve living also. No doubt the Sports industry has grown now. Not only it provides entertainment but also a source of employment where millions of people are employed. Relationships of business built on Intellectual property rights will help to secure the economic value of sports.
World Intellectual Property Day 2024: History
Do you know that the WIPO is a specialised agency of the United Nations?
It is committed to developing a balanced and approachable international intellectual property (IP) system, which rewards creativity, encourages innovation and contributes to economic development while safeguarding the public interest.
In 2000, WIPO's member states designated April 26, the day on which the WIPO Convention came into force in 1970. They want to minimise the gap between IP as a business or legal concept and its relevance to people's lives.
How is World Intellectual Property Day celebrated?
To promote World Intellectual Property Day every year, WIPO works together with several agencies of government, non-government organisations, community groups and individuals to organise events and activities.
- Stage concerts or various public performances focussed around the World IP Day theme.
- Essay competitions for young people on the theme of World IP Day.
- Seminars or free lectures in several universities are provided to build awareness about IP and its benefits.
- To explain the link between innovation and intellectual property various exhibitions in museums, art galleries, schools and other educational institutions are organised on World IP Day.
- On 26 April some local intellectual and copyright offices may have open to promote World IP Day. But due to COVID-19, this year's celebration WIPO is not organising any events. The celebration will not be there, it is necessary to be safe and to take appropriate precautions.
Therefore, we can say that every year on 26 April World Intellectual Property Day is observed to spread awareness about the role that intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, industrial designs, copyright) play in encouraging innovation and creativity.
About World Intellectual Property Organization
The origins of WIPO are traced back to 1883, during the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, when 14 countries signed Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, Hence, from that convention intellectual-property protections for inventions, trademarks, and industrial designs were created.
WIPO was formally created by the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, which entered into force on April 26, 1970. Under this Convention, WIPO seeks to "promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world." It became a specialized agency of the UN in 1974.
WIPO's activities include hosting forums where international IP rules and policies are discussed and shaped, offering services globally that register and protect IP in various nations, resolving transboundary IP disputes, assisting in the connection of IP systems through uniform standards and infrastructure, and acting as a general reference database on all IP matters, including providing reports and statistics on the state of IP protection or innovation both globally and in specific countries. In order to use IP for socioeconomic development, WIPO also collaborates with governmental bodies, nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), and individuals.
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