As proposed by the people's republic of china and algeria in 1999, the world intellectual property organization, at its thirty-fifth session, held in 2000, adopted a resolution by which it decided to designate 26 april of each year as world intellectual property day, starting in 2001. 26 april marks the date of the entry into force of the convention establishing the world intellectual property organization (wipo convention). The world intellectual property day was designed to create a worldwide awareness of respect for knowledge, science and protection of intellectual property rights, and a legal environment that encouraged intellectual innovation and protected intellectual property rights。
Publicity signs
The title of the world intellectual property day logo is “i”, “p”, “r”, which is the initial letter of the english expression of intellectual property, the three letters deformed into an active human shape, meaning “knowledge is people-centred, intellectual property is protected and the interests of rights-holders are safeguarded”. The logo includes the main letter, the date of the “advocacy week” and three parts of the name in chinese and english, reflecting the link to world intellectual property day。
Purpose of establishment
The world intellectual property day was designed to create a worldwide awareness of respect for knowledge, science and protection of intellectual property rights, and a legal environment that encouraged intellectual innovation and protected intellectual property rights。
Review of previous years ' themes
The theme for 2001 was “creating the future today”, and it was written in a post entitled “creating the future today”
In 2002, the theme was “encouraging innovation”
In 2003, the theme was “intellectual property rights are relevant to us.”
In 2004, the theme was “encouraging creativity”
In 2005, the theme was “thinking, imagining, creating.”
The theme for 2006 was “intellectual property rights - starting with the concept” and “intellectual property rights”
The theme for 2007 was “encouraging creativity”。
The theme for 2008 was “calling on innovation and promoting respect for intellectual property rights”。
The theme for 2009 was “green innovation”
The theme for 2010 was “innovation — connecting the world”。
The theme for 2011 was “designing the future”
