WIPO is a global forum on intellectual property services, policies, cooperation and information. We are a self-financing United Nations organization with 193 member countries.
The mission is to lead the development of an effective international intellectual property system, take into account the interests of all parties, and let innovation and creation benefit everyone. The Convention stipulates our tasks, leading bodies and procedures. The World Intellectual Property Organization was established in 1967 according to this convention.
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.
The Convention on the Establishment of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO Convention) stipulates that WIPO membership is open to the following countries:
1. Any member of the Paris Union for the Protection of Industrial Property or the Berne Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works;
2. Any State that is a Member of the United Nations, a member of any specialized agency of the United Nations, a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency or a party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice; And any country that has become a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization at the invitation of the General Assembly. Therefore, only countries can become members of the World Intellectual Property Organization.