Celebrating World IP Day
Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert Today is World IP Day , an international festival of innovation and creativity to celebrate the entry into force of the Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization on 26 April 1970. The World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO") is the UN specialist agency for intellectual property with responsibility for administering most of the world's intellectual property treaties , formulating future policy for the protection of intellectual assets and resolving intellectual property disputes . The WIPO has 193 member states each of which is encouraged to celebrate World IP Day. Particulars of those celebrations are posted to the World Intellectual Property Day Events Calendar . The United Kingdom is contributing 6 events this year: IP With Guy Fox on 18 April 2021 The Scottish Bar's 13th World IP Conference organized by the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh on 23 April 2021 Leeds Cent...