World Intellectual Property Day today
The World Intellectual Property Day will be observed in the country as elsewhere across the globe today to appreciate the brains that create.
This year's theme of the day is: "Visionary Innovators".
Paint, Design and Trade Mark Directorate under the industries ministry, Copyright Office under the cultural ministry and Intellectual Property Association of Bangladesh (IPAB) will jointly arrange a seminar at Sonargaon Hotel in the city today marking the day.
Planning Minister AK Khandker, Industries Minister Dilip Baura, cultural secretary Surayia Begum and president of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) AK Azad will attend the seminar. Industries secretary KH Masud Siddiqui will preside.
The event was introduced by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in 2001 to raise awareness about the role of intellectual property in our daily lives, and celebrate the contributions made by innovators and artists to the development of societies across the globe.
In the World IP Day message, WIPO Director General Francis Gurry describes a visionary innovator as someone whose innovations have transformed our lives and, at times, the way society operates. In the arts, he notes, innovation revolves around new ways of seeing things.
“A visionary artist or a composer or a writer is able to show us a different way, a new way of looking at the world,” said Gurry.
He said the World IP Day is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions that intellectual property makes to innovation and cultural creation … “and the immense good that these two social phenomena bring to the world.”
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