Patent alliance established

1967, 5 1 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) jointly established the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Stockholm, Sweden, in order to further promote intellectual property rights worldwide. 1970 On April 26th, the Convention on the Establishment of the World Intellectual Property Organization came into effect. 1974 65438+February, the organization became one of the six specialized agencies of the United Nations/kloc-0. The World Intellectual Property Organization is headquartered in Geneva and has a liaison office in the United Nations Building in new york, USA. As of June 2004, * * has 18 1 member countries. The main function of the organization is to promote worldwide intellectual property protection through cooperation between countries, manage the administrative work of 23 patent, trademark and copyright alliances based on multilateral treaties, and handle the legal and administrative affairs of intellectual property rights. A large part of the organization's financial resources are used for development cooperation with developing countries, promoting technology transfer from developed countries to developing countries, and promoting inventions and literary and artistic creation activities in developing countries to promote their scientific, technological, cultural and economic development.