World Intellectual Property Day: Date, Theme, History, Significance, Facts

World Intellectual Property Day: Date, Theme, History, Significance, Facts

World Intellectual Property Day: It is observed on 26 April with an aim to highlight the importance and understanding of intellectual property (IP). Let us have a look in detail at World Intellectual Property Day, theme, history, significance and some facts.

World Intellectual Property Day: Date

  • 2026: 26 April, 2026 [Sunday]
  • 2027: 26 April, 2027 [Monday]
  • 2028: 26 April, 2028 [Wednesday]

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: Theme

  • 2025: IP and Music: Feel the Beat of IP
  • 2024: IP and the SDGs: Building Our Common Future with Innovation and Creativity
  • 2023: Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity
  • 2022: IP and Youth Innovating for a Better Future
  • 2021: IP & SMEs: Taking Your Ideas to Market
  • 2020: Innovate for a Green Future
  • 2019: Reach for Gold: IP and Sports

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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, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and individuals.

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