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2020-04-27
25 April 2020CopyrightDavid Knight and Heidi Hurdle

World IP Day: how IP can go green

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) introduced the annual World IP Day campaign in 2000, designating April 26 (the day on which the WIPO Convention came into force in 1970) as World IP Day, to raise public awareness about the role that IP rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity and in supporting economic, social and cultural development.

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