Other activities for your World Intellectual Property Campaign

What can my organization do?

...to engage the public

  • Create a website containing general information about IP, case studies, videos, IP Day activities, quizzes, voting, etc.
  • Celebrate works of a notable women inventors, creatives, artists, designers, musicians, writers, photographers, entrepreneurs, animators, illustrators, filmmakers, multimedia creators, developers, and influencers.
  • Run virtual workshops to inform specific users or potential users of the IP rights system – artists, performers, photographers, musicians, inventors, entrepreneurs, etc. –and the services available.
  • Run online essay competitions on themes relating to IP, innovation, piracy and counterfeiting, etc…
  • Create locally-focused Intellectual Property Day publicity materials, such as posters, brochures, broadcast spots, targeted at specific audiences and make them available online.
  • Hang a World Intellectual Property Day banner on the web portal of your IP or copyright office.
  • Add your World Intellectual Property Day activity to the Events Calendar and promote it through social media using the #WorldIPDay hashtag, live event updates and Twitter chats.
  • Run an online photo competition in line with the main theme in order to highlight creativity and the working of copyright in practice.
  • Livestream a Virtual Speaker event with spokesperson or create a spokes-character.
  • Produce interviews, videos, podcasts, etc., featuring artists, authors, and inventors talking about their work and how it relates to IP, and post them online.
  • Release studies, statistical data, surveys, etc., about the impact of innovation, the damage of counterfeiting and piracy, attitudes towards innovation, etc.
  • Organize a free IP consultation or Q&A session on your social media channels or other online technologies with a local law firm or academic institution for people interested in learning about the best ways to protect their IP.
  • Launch a social media campaign encouraging budding and established women inventors/creators to share their experiences of the IP system or their hopes for the system’s future (via traditional blog posts, video blog entries, etc.).
  • Explain how IP can support women inventors, creators and entrepreneurs in their quest to accelerate innovation and creativity.
  • Organize a quiz and test your teams on their knowledge of IP and innovation.

...to engage the media

  • Work with local newspapers and media outlets to publish editorials and articles on IP-related themes.
  • Get in touch with radio and television stations to broadcast discussion programs about how to promote and protect creativity and innovation.
  • Hold a virtual press conference on your IP Day activities.
  • Produce digital-press packs with easy-to-digest facts and figures for time-pressed journalists.

...to engage businesses

  • Run virtual workshops with local businesses and chambers of commerce on how small- and medium-sized enterprises can benefit from using the IP system.
  • Work with local inventors' associations or designers to announce invention or design awards online.
  • Run a virtual meeting with designers to talk about new trends in brand strategy, UI design, machine learning and other areas of design and IP.
  • Set up a “Design Jam” in a partnership with a local FabLab for SMEs, start-ups and teams of entrepreneurs to build a product and learn how IP can support their business goals.

...to engage schools/universities

  • Hold webinars or online conferences in universities to build awareness of IP and its benefits among students, faculty and researchers.
  • Mark IP Day in schools with: digital invention competitions solving common problems; or video presentations by inventors, authors, musicians, etc. on how IP supports them.
  • Involve science and art museums with virtual presentations explaining the link between the exhibitions, innovation and IP.
  • Create a video library with information about intellectual property and how it can support the ambitions of young inventors, creators and social entrepreneurs.
  • Set up a virtual Career Fair to engage with law students that are interested in IP and connect them with IP-intensive industries.
  • Organize a virtual field trip to WIPO’s Virtual Exhibitions.
  • Invite leading thinkers on innovation to give a virtual talk on IP, innovation and young people.
  • Set up a book club to read selected IP material to discuss in class.