World Intellectual Property Day is celebrated annually on 26 April. The theme of World Intellectual Property Day 2022 is 'IP and Youth Innovating for a Better Future'.
Events organized to mark the Day seek to inform about the role of intellectual property rights in encouraging innovation and creativity. For 2022, the theme will explore how youth are driving positive change.
World Intellectual Property Day 2022: 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 know 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 in shaping the world and also improves the living of people.
World Intellectual Property Day 2022: Theme
This 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.
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