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Celebrate World Intellectual Property Day

ipday_poster07_small.gifToday is World Intellectual Property Day [1], a day organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) [2] as a way to encourage people to think about intellectual property in everyday life, and about its importance in protecting IP. April 26 was chosen as this was the date on which the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization [3] entered into force in 1970.

Specifically, the aims of World IP Day are:

The theme this year is encouraging creativity. In a message from Director General Kamil Idris, he states, “Encouraging creativity – rewarding the creative, innovative talents on which our world and our future are built – these are the ends which intellectual property serves. This is what drives WIPO’s work. This is what makes World Intellectual Property Day a cause for celebration.”

Among the free give-aways are a nice publication on Understanding Industrial Property [4] and a short video clip on “encouraging creativity and innovation [5]” — even if it doesn’t really tell you much.

Jeremy Phillips of IPKat [6] put together his own special post for World Intellectual Property Day describing the recent break-though in asexual reproductive technology by Disney Biosciences – the first-ever cloning of a cartoon character [7].

Even George and Laura Bush sent out a special WIPD greeting [8]

See more activities here [9].  Although, not everyone [10] wanted to join in all the reindeer games.