On July 14, 1967, 51 members of the "International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property" (Paris Union) and the "International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works" (Berne Union) met in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) was established to further promote the protection of intellectual property rights around the world and strengthen cooperation among countries and intellectual property organizations. On April 26, 1970, the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization came into effect. In December 1974, the organization became one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations. The World Intellectual Property Organization is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has a liaison office at the United Nations Building in New York, United States. As of October 2004, the *** has 181 member states. The main functions of the organization are to promote the protection of intellectual property rights around the world through cooperation between countries, manage the administrative work of 23 alliances on patents, trademarks and copyrights based on multilateral treaties, and handle intellectual property law and administration. matters. A large part of the organization's financial resources is used for development cooperation with developing countries, promoting the transfer of technology from developed countries to developing countries, and promoting inventions, creations and literary and artistic creation activities in developing countries, so as to facilitate their scientific, technological, cultural and economic development. .