The National Algerian Institute for Industrial Property proposed the institutionalization of an international day for intellectual property, with the aim of more awareness. The Chinese delegation to the WIPO proposed the adoption of the “World Intellectual Property Day“. In 1999, the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) approved the idea of declaring [...]
Industrial design right is a type intellectual property right awarded for the protection of the visual aspects of items which are not made for purely utilitarian reasons. An industrial design right protects the shape, pattern, colour or combination of patterns and colour which are in three dimensional form. The pattern doesn’t have to be three [...]
The Patent Cooperation Treaty is often referred to as the PCT. It is an international treaty that governs patent filings and cooperation amongst member states. The Patent Cooperation Treaty came into being as far back as 1970 with the aim of unifying patent filing procedures and to ensure that the patents granted in the member [...]
WIPO stands for World Intellectual Property Organization and is a United Nations (UN) agency which came into being in the late 1960s. The WIPO headquarters are located in Switzerland in the city of Geneva. There are 184 member states of the organisation, representing more than 89% of the countries globally. WIPO administrates 23 treaties of [...]
The field of copyright and related rights has expanded enormously with the technological progress of the last several decades, which has brought new ways of spreading creations by such forms of worldwide communication as satellite broadcast and compact discs. Dissemination of works via the Internet is but the latest development, which raises new questions concerning [...]
There is no agreement within the Internet community that would allow organizations that register domain names to pre-screen the filing of potentially problematic names. The reasons vary, ranging from allowing easy registrations to stimulate business, to the practical difficulties involved in determining who holds the rights to a name, to the principle of freedom of [...]
Intellectual property plays an important role in an increasingly broad range of areas, ranging from the Internet to health care to nearly all aspects of science and technology and literature and the arts. Understanding the role of intellectual property in these areas – many of them still emerging – often requires significant new research and [...]
Generally, industrial design protection is limited to the country in which protection is granted. Under the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs, a WIPO-administered treaty, a procedure for an international registration is offered. An applicant can file a single international deposit either with WIPO or the national office of a country that [...]
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