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Every year World Intellectual Property Day (WIPD) is being observed on 26 April to

highlight importance of intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, industrial designs,


copyright) in encouraging innovation and creativity.
2016 Theme: “Digital Creativity: Culture Reimagined “. The theme seeks to explore
the future of culture in the digital age in order to answer questions how we create it, how we access
it, how we finance it related to it.
The idea of declaring a particular day as a World Intellectual Property Day was mooted in October
1999 at the General Assembly of the WIPO

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