According to the proposal of the People's Republic of China and Algeria in 1999, the World Intellectual Property Organization passed a resolution at the 35th General Assembly in 2000, deciding to designate April 26th of each year as World Intellectual Property Day starting from 2001. April 26th is the date of the entry into force of the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (the "WIPO Convention"). The establishment of World Intellectual Property Day aims to establish a sense of respect for knowledge, reverence for science, and protection of intellectual property rights worldwide, and to create a legal environment that encourages the creation of knowledge and the protection of intellectual property rights.
Since 2001, April 26th of each year has been designated as World Intellectual Property Day. This special day was established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization came into effect on April 26, 1970, marking the official establishment of WIPO. In October 2000, at the 35th General Assembly of the organization, China and Algeria proposed the establishment of "World Intellectual Property Day," which was subsequently approved by the assembly.
The day of property rights is thus established.
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Basic knowledge
World Intellectual Property Organization: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations system, officially established in 1967 and came into effect in 1970, headquartered in Geneva. It is an organization specifically responsible for managing and coordinating the intellectual property work of countries around the world, mainly for the maintenance and strengthening of respect for intellectual property, encouraging the creation of inventions and innovations, promoting the transfer of technology and the dissemination of literary and artistic works, strengthening cooperation and development among countries, and our country officially joined the World Intellectual Property Organization in 1980.
Intellectual property rights refer to the exclusive rights that citizens, legal entities, or other organizations enjoy according to law for the intellectual achievements they have created in the fields of science and technology or culture and art.
Intellectual property includes two parts: industrial property and copyright (called moral rights in our country). Industrial property includes patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, geographical indications, and the prevention of unfair competition, etc. Copyright is the right of a certain unit or individual to enjoy the right of printing, publishing, and selling a certain work stipulated by law, and any person who wants to copy, translate, adapt, or perform, etc., needs to obtain the permission of the copyright owner, otherwise it is an infringement of the rights of others. The essence of intellectual property is to regard the achievements of human intelligence as property.
The right of trademark refers to the exclusive right of the trademark owner to protect its registered trademark under the national law as granted by the trademark supervisory authority in accordance with the law. A trademark is a commercial sign used to distinguish the different sources of goods and services, which is composed of words, graphics, letters, numbers, three-dimensional marks, color combinations or combinations of the above elements. In our country, the acquisition of trademark right must go through the trademark registration procedure, and the principle of application first is implemented.
Copyright is a kind of civil right that the original author of literary, artistic, scientific and technological works enjoys according to law.
Patent rights and patent protection refer to the exclusive right granted to an inventor by a national patent office for a specified period of time after the patent application is submitted and reviewed according to the law. Once the invention is granted patent rights, the patentee has the exclusive right to the invention, and no unit or individual may implement the patent without the permission of the patentee, i.e., manufacture, use, offer to sell, sell, and import the patented products for the purpose of production and business. If a unit or individual implements the patent without the permission of the patentee, it infringes the patent rights of the patentee, and if a dispute arises, it shall be resolved through negotiation between the parties; if the parties are unwilling to negotiate or negotiate fails, the patentee or the person with a stake may file a lawsuit with the people's court, or request the department in charge of patent work to handle it. Patent protection adopts a protection model of "two paths, parallel operation, and judicial guarantee" of judicial and administrative law enforcement. The administrative protection of this region takes the form of patent law enforcement such as circuit law enforcement and joint law enforcement, focusing on the concentration of forces to increase the punishment of serious acts that disrupt the patent legal environment, such as group infringement and repeated infringement.
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