World Intellectual Property Day 2009 – Promoting Green Innovation

GENEVA - This year's World Intellectual Property (WIPO) Day on April 26 focuses on promoting green innovation as the key to a secure future, a press release by WIPO stated.

In his message to mark the day, WIPO Director General Francis Gurry highlights the contribution that a balanced Intellectual Property (IP) system can make in enabling the development of technology-based solutions to mitigate the impact of climate change.

WIPO’s member states initiated World IP Day in 2000 to raise public awareness about the role of IP in daily life, and to celebrate the contribution made by innovators and creators to the development of societies across the globe. World IP Day is celebrated annually on April 26, the date on which the Convention establishing WIPO entered into force in 1970.