The International Day of Intellectual property

Majority of people know about the existence of intellectual property (IP), copyright, patents, industrial designs and trademarks in particular. However many still consider that these concepts are related to the sphere of business & rights and are insignificant for their day-to-day life. For eliminating this lack in 2000, the state-members of WIPO, have decided to form and to celebrate annually the International day of intellectual property. For this purpose they have chosen 26th of April–the day, when in 1970 the WIPO’s Convention establishment has come into force.
WIPO and its member-states annually celebrate the International day of intellectual property, holding meetings planned for this date, events and campaigns. Their purpose – is to achieve the best understanding in general public, what really represents IP, and to show, how the IP-system promotes not only development in music, art and show business, but also in creation of all products and innovative technologies which define the world surrounding us.
On April, 26th, 2010 WIPO celebrates the 10th anniversary of intellectual property’s International day. Theme of this anniversary year of IP International day is:
Innovations – Connecting the world
Couple of decades ago, to majority of people the world seemed huge and in many respects to be unknown. Knowledge was committed to paper, and it was very difficult to exchange them. Outside of cities access to foreign culture and art has been limited.
Rapid growth of innovations and their global use have changed our outlook. In limited hours we can hey-through continents. Almost from any part our globe we can access any information, using such compact devices that can go fit on our palm. The universal communication supported of web- and wireless technologies, has a great significance on the future. Noegenesis on the basis of world-wide web releases intellectual potential before the isolated societies, helping to reduce rupture in knowledge between nations. Modern means of videoconference technology reduces the necessity for business trips, reducing our carbon "prints". Mobile telephones already changed our life and society: mobile communication working on solar energy helps to find out diseases, which were earlier out of striking distances.
Quick processing and data exchange accelerates innovative cycle, promoting collective innovations and mutually advantageous cooperation between companies, research institutions and separate individuals. An innovative technology really creates a global society. The intellectual property system is a part of this binding process. It promotes information interchange, in particular, providing access to the file of technological know-how containing in free WIPO databases. It provides structure for trade and distribution of technologies. It offers initiatives for innovations and competition. It helps to build-up cooperation necessary for the decision of essential global problems which we face-such as climatic change and spiral requirement for energy.
Therefore WIPO is urged to ensure access, so that the intellectual property system continued to serve the most important purpose to encouragement innovations & creativity and so that the advantages of this system became accessible to everything, helping to put together the world.