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World Intellectual Property Organization
World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO - was established by a WIPO Convention in 1967, and it became a Specialized Agency of the United Nations in 1974.
WIPO's purpose is to promote respect for intellectual property worldwide.
Intellectual property comprises two main branches:
- industrial property ( inventions, trademark and design);
- copyrighted materials (literary, musical, photographic, cinematographic and other artistic works).
WIPO administers international conventions and develops international standards, promotes modernization of national legislation in the protection of intellectual property, collects and disseminates information, organizes meetings and seminars, and provides legal and administrative support to its Member States.
WIPO is governed by a General Conference composed of all member states and a General Assembly composed of state members of the Paris- and Berne Conventions.
WIPO is headquartered in Geneva. The highest public servant of WIPO is the Director-General.
Documentation
The WIPO official web site provides multilingual background information and news, full text conventions, documents and reports, WIPO standards and statistics.
WIPO Magazine is posted at the WIPO official web site from 1998 onwards.
Annual Report, nowadays replaced by WIPO Overview, is a survey of WIPO activities. It is posted on the WIPO official web site from 1998 onwards.
WIPO-Administered Treaties can be accessed through WIPO official web site.
A summary of the work of the World Intellectual Property Organization for a given year with references to essential documents can be accessed through the Yearbook of the United Nations, Part Six: Intergovernmental Organizations to the United Nations. A complete collection of yearbooks is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/.
Databases and Indexes
The WIPO official web site provides access to several relevant databases.
Intellectual Property Digital Library , updated daily, contains intellectual property data collections.
WIPO Lex - electronic archives of intellectual property law worldwide.
Intellectual Property Statistics - an annual compilation of statistical tables by country.