World Intellectual Property Day – April 26, 2022
IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future
Across the globe, young people are stepping up to innovation challenges, using their energy and ingenuity, their curiosity and creativity to steer a course towards a better future.
This year, the World Intellectual Property Day 2022’s theme focuses on IP and Youth innovating for a Better Future . We explore how these innovative, energetic and creative minds are driving positive change.
Find out how young inventors, creators and entrepreneurs can use intellectual property (IP) rights to achieve their goals, generate income, create jobs, tackle local and global challenges and support community and national development. Learn more
Meet the winners of the Competition
More than 33.400 people have cast their vote to help pick the winners of the World Intellectual Property Day Youth Video Competition. Find out who the finalists and winners of the Competition are.
This year young people are at the center of World Intellectual Property Day.
Join the conversation. Share your views on how innovation can shape the world you want to live in using #WorldIPDay.
WIPO Magazine – special focus issue
The WIPO Magazine explores intellectual property (IP), creativity and innovation at work across the world.
World IP Day Youth Survey
Share your views on innovation, creativity and IP in a short survey and help inform WIPO’s youth engagement activities. Your views matter!
Complete the surveyMessages from the Global IP Community
TM5 Joint Message for World Intellectual Property Day 2022
April 22, 2022
World IP Day Youth Gallery
Nominate young innovators near you who are shaping a better future.
We invite you to post image and video content on young people (up to 35 years of age) who are innovating for a better future on your dedicated World Intellectual Property Day page. Please ensure that the case study makes reference to World Intellectual Property Day 2022 and bears the #WorldIPDay hashtag.
Please complete this form in the email and send it to WorldIPDay@wipo.int as soon as possible to enable us to post these entries in the World Intellectual Property Day Youth Gallery.
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World Intellectual Property Day Events Calendar
Join us in celebrating the ingenuity, creativity, drive and vision of the world’s young inventors, creators and entrepreneurs to build a better future.
IP Resources Hub
The IP Resources Hub offers practical tips on how to use various intellectual property rights.
Technology
Brands
Designs
Resolving Disputes
IP Training Opportunities
Promotional tools
Guidelines
Use our guidelines to create your own World IP Day 2022 campaign:
Promotion toolkit
This toolkit offers a selection of resources to enable you to create your own campaign.
Social media kit
Download campaign materials in 8 languages from our social media kit, including theme visuals, social media banners, cards, etc.
Other WIPO youth-related initiatives
WIPO Photography Prize for Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Youth 2021-2022
Through this activity, WIPO aims to celebrate and make widely known the creativity of Indigenous and local community youth, as well as raise their awareness on how copyright can be used to protect their creativity expressed in the photographs.
The theme of the WIPO Photography Prize is Climate Change and Climate Action: Mother Earth through our Lenses. Participation is meant to encourage young members of Indigenous peoples and local communities to express themselves on this issue of immense global significance.
Young Experts Program
WIPO’s new “Young Experts Program” (YEP) initiative is aimed at forging the next generation of intellectual property leaders. Successful applicants will join a two-year program hosted at WIPO designed to expose young people with high potential, particularly from developing and least developed countries as well as countries in transition, to the technical and policy aspects of IP.
WIPO Academy: Gearing up for your IP journey
The WIPO Academy offers a wide portfolio of training courses on intellectual property (IP) education and skills-building essential to innovation and creativity. The Academy’s training combines face-to-face and Distance Learning (DL) courses that IP experts teach to provide an in-depth view of the fundamentals of IP law.
The WIPO Academy’s IP4Youth&Teachers service offers complementary practical tools for youth, designed to facilitate teaching. The Youth Corner will relaunch in April 2022. Learn more about WIPO Academy courses.
WIPO ADR Young
Organized by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, the WIPO ADR Young group offers a networking and training forum for young professionals interested in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) options for IP disputes, such as mediation and arbitration. Membership is free of charge and it is open to young professionals with a background on IP and ADR.
About World IP Day
In 2000, WIPO's member states designated April 26 – the day on which the WIPO Convention came into force in 1970 – as World IP Day with the aim of increasing general understanding of IP.
Since then, World IP Day has offered a unique opportunity each year to join with others around the globe to consider how IP contributes to the flourishing of music and the arts and to driving the technological innovation that helps shape our world.
Frequently Asked Questions about World IP Day
“Why celebrate World IP Day?”, “What kind of events can I organize?” are examples of frequent questions that are asked about World IP Day.
Visit our FAQ page to find out answers to all the questions that you may have about World IP Day.