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World Intellectual Property Rights Day
● World Intellectual Property Rights Day is observed every year on 26 April with the aim of promoting innovation and creativity and spreading awareness in this regard.
● The rights related to the intellectual product of the people are called intellectual property rights. It includes things like literary creation, research, invention.
● The theme of World Intellectual Property Rights Day for the year 2023 is - 'Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity'.
● Intellectual property rights are granted in view of a fixed period of time and a defined geographical area. These rights are of five types- 1) Copyright, 2) Patent, 3) Trademark, 4) Industrial Design and 5) Geographical Indication.
● The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) was formed in the year 1967 to promote intellectual property protection in the world, which is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
● India became a member of WIPO in the year 1975.
● The importance of intellectual property was first recognized in the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883) and the Berne Convention (1886) for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
● Currently both the treaties are administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
● Many laws and policies have been made in India to protect intellectual property rights and to spread awareness about it, which includes Patents Act 1970 and Patents (Amendment) Act 2005, Trade Marks Act 1999, Copyright Act 1957 and Copyright (Amendment) Act 1999, Geographical Indication of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act 1999 and Designs Act, 2000 etc.
● On May 12, 2016, the Government of India also approved the National Intellectual Property Rights Policy through which intellectual property is protected and promoted in India.
● Presently WIPO consists of 193 member countries.
● All member states of the United Nations are entitled, though not obliged, to become members of specialized agencies such as WIPO.
● 190 UN member states as well as the Cook Islands, the Holy See and Niue are members of WIPO and Palestine has permanent observer status.