April 26 is World Intellectual Property Day.
WIPO set the theme for this year as “IP and the Sustainable Development Goals: Building our common future with innovation and creativity,” and calls on all member states and the persons concerned to deepen awareness of the pivotal role that intellectual property plays in driving innovation, creativity, business growth and sustainable development and join the global effort to reignite progress in achieving the sustainable development goals.
In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, IP protection is conducted under the unified guidance of the state.
The state vigorously promotes the work to implement the long- and medium-term plan for IP development and further perfect the legal and institutional conditions and environment for IP protection.
And the work to examine, register, protect and distribute rights of IP such as inventions, trademarks, copyrights, appellations of origin and geographical marks goes full steam ahead.
The deliberation and registration of new intellectual properties is in progress on a high level, and great attention is paid to the protection of valuable inventions, trademarks and industrial designs which are steadily created.
Activities of IP agencies are being encouraged in the country.
Over a dozen agencies, including the Moranbong Patent & Trademark Agency and the Taesongsan Copyright Agency, provide applicants at home and abroad with economic and effective services in the whole courses of application, registration and protection of inventions, trademarks and industrial designs.
Patent applications for valuable inventions have been made to WIPO, with the result that last year alone, “A Composite for Promotion of Animal Growth” invented by Sin Kye Ryong, section chief at Kim Il Sung University, was awarded a WIPO Medal for Inventors.
Seminars are held every year on the occasion of World Intellectual Property Day and wide publicity is given to intellectual properties through mass media.
Jo Il Myong, section chief at the Intellectual Property Administration of the DPRK, said that they would make a tangible contribution to the economic development of the country by encouraging the creation and protection of inventions, trademarks and industrial designs.
Yang Ryon Hui
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