World Intellectual Property Day

April 26th is World Intellectual Property Day. If you're interested, WIPO produced a nice poster (it is 8MB). Since 2000, WIPO and its Member States have celebrated World Intellectual Property Day with the goals of increasing public understanding of intellectual property and demonstrating the impact of IP on innovation and creativity in our world.

From the web site, the aims of World IP Day are:

• to raise awareness of how patents, copyright, trademarks and designs impact on daily life;
• to increase understanding of how protecting IP rights helps promote creativity and innovation;
• to celebrate creativity, and the contribution made by creators and innovators to the development of societies across the globe;
• to encourage respect for the IP rights of others.

So celebrate: kiss a scholar!