Role of WIPO in Development of IP

WIPO was established on 14 July 1967 and is the headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, representing the World Organization for Intellectual Property. This article explores the history of WIPO, the way it has taken shape, the tasks, roles, and aims of WIPO, and how it is working to improve intellectual property rights worldwide. WIPO is a Geneva-based organization that aims to encourage artistic activity and to facilitate the protection of intellectual property worldwide. WIPO is one of the United Nations' 15 specialist organizations. The World Intellectual Property Organization currently comprises 193 members. WIPO originally was concerned with promoting intellectual property rights.

Role of WIPO in Development of IP

Introduction

Intellectual Property (IP) deals with every fundamental human knowledge creation, such as arts, literature, technology, or science. IPR refers to the legal rights of the inventor or manufacturer in defending their invention or the development of the product. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) The inventor/manufacturer or operator who fully exercises its invention/product for a limited period of time are accorded exclusive rights in these legal rights.

WIPO was established on 14 July 1967 and is the headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, representing the World Organization for Intellectual Property. This article explores the history of WIPO, the way it has taken shape, the tasks, roles, and aims of WIPO, and how it is working to improve intellectual property rights worldwide. WIPO is a Geneva-based organization that aims to encourage artistic activity and to facilitate the protection of intellectual property worldwide. WIPO is one of the United Nations' 15 specialist organizations. The World Intellectual Property Organization currently comprises 193 members. WIPO originally was concerned with promoting intellectual property rights.

Support for IP security campaigns throughout the world and harmonization of national legislation in this area;

  • Foreign IP security agreements to be concluded,

  • Applying for Paris and Berne Unions administrative roles,

  • Rendering IP technological and juridical support,

  • collect and disseminate information, carry out analysis and report findings, information;

  • Ensure the work of the IP security facilitating services,

  • Any other related steps to be applied


 

Mission of WIPO

WIPO's challenge lies in creating an integrated, balanced, and efficient intellectual property right and compliance mechanism. Article 1 of the 1974 WIPO/UN Agreement stipulates that "to speed up the economic, social and cultural development;" it is a redefinition of what used to happen earlier since WIPO is part of the United Nations and the United Nations is working with a larger community and is committed to global social development.

Objective of WIPO

  • To encourage intellectual property rights in the world;

  • Ensuring administrative co-operation between intellectual property unions formed by WIPO treaties.

On 1 May 1975, India became an official WIPO member. The origins of the WIPO date from 1884, when the Paris Convention with 14 Member States came into force, setting up a foreign office to conduct administrative tasks such as the organization. The Berne Convention also established a Foreign Office, like the Paris Convention, to carry out the administrative tasks. These two small offices founded an international organization called the Unified International Bureaux for Intellectual Property Security in 1893 and were formed. This tiny organization, which has its headquarters in Berne, with 7 workers, was today the forerunner of the World Organization of Intellectual Property, a dynamic body with 185 member nations, an estimated number of employees from 938 and 95 different countries worldwide, and a constantly thriving mission and mandate. Over time, the Foreign Bureau was known as WIPO in 1970. In 1974, WIPO was made a United Nations entity and in 1996, by entering into a Partnership Agreement with the World Trade Organization, WIPO extended its position into globalized trade. The World Maritime Organization administers 25 treaties and carries out, through its member states and the secretariat, a rich and varying work program, three of which are joint with international organizations:

  • Integrating national intellectual property legislation and procedures.

  • Providing an international industrial property registry service.

  • Intellectual property knowledge exchange.

  • To assist developing countries and others with legal and technical assistance.

  • Aid in the resolution of intellectual property disputes between persons.

  • Check the use of information technology as an access method and use important intellectual property information.

The most important role for WIPO is to manage multilateral international conventions, including the deposit of treaties, dispute resolution instruments by nations, the revision of treaties, and so on.

Since 1998, WIPO Worldwide Academy has been building IP security human capital. In this academy, you can gain knowledge through the internet from a distance learning center. The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center was founded in 1994 to assist in conflict resolution.

Declaration made by Geneva for the future of WIPO

The Geneva Statement on WIPO's future had been released in September 2004. Prominent legal experts, NGO's in the public interest, politicians, a former French Prime Minister, a Nobel laureate in physiology in 2002, scientists, and a number of other interested people of world society were all involved in the declaration. It claimed that the WIPO "continued expansion of these benefits and of their enforcement mechanisms has resulted in serious social and economic costs, and has hampered and threatened other key creative and innovation systems."They demanded a compromise between public domain and competition, on the one hand, and property rights on the other. It stressed that the measures taken might prove dangerous for the very important competitive factor on the market. The declaration pointed to key factors for those countries which struggle to satisfy their citizens' critical needs and said that a 'one-size-fits all-in-one' approach that the WIPO has adopted would trigger them excessive burdens.

This legally insignificant statement did a great job in igniting the spark which inspired numerous debates about WIPO practice, this declaration made by the declaration, which was heard worldwide, and which gained much attention from around the world. It was a powerful word jointly made by some of the world's most influential citizens and did what it could do, and brought these activities into the forefront.


 

Conclusion

WIPO reflects the progression and essential improvements made from the time it started in 1883 with the Paris Convention up to the present day, in the form and structure in which it is known to people. It represents an increasing organization and this increase is largely linked to the fact that it became a member of the United Nations in 1974, from a notion which would deal with intellectual property matters to being a banner on gender equality on a global scale.


 

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Ankita Rathi