World Intellectual Property Day – April 26, 2020: Innovate for a Green Future
Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert On 26 April of each and every year, the world's intellectual property practitioners celebrate World Intellectual Property Day . It falls on the anniversary of the day the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO") came into force. Each year the day has a different theme. The theme for 2020 is "Innovate for a Green Future," According to the WIPO's World IP Day index page: "We explore how a balanced and robust IP system can support the emergence of a green economy that works with and not against the earth’s life-support systems. We look at how the patent system fosters innovation and the development and diffusion of eco-friendly technologies that enable us tackle the climate crisis and build a green future; how design thinking and design rights together support the optimal use of resources and enable designers to invest their time and talent in creating useful, attrac...