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The World Intellectual Property Organization traces its origins to 1893 when the Swiss government merged two international bureaus into one entity called BIRPI. This single bureau eventually evolved into WIPO after eighty-seven years of operation.
Daren Tang from Singapore took office as the Director General on the 1st of October 2020. He succeeded Francis Gurry and received support from the United States and fifty-four other nations during his election.
Unlike most UN agencies, the World Intellectual Property Organization derives ninety-five percent of its budget from service fees rather than state contributions. In 2020 total revenue reached CHF 468.3 million through these user-paid channels.
Delegates signed the Paris Convention in Paris on the 20th of March 1883 to protect industrial property like patents and trademarks across borders. A decade later another group gathered in Bern to sign the Berne Convention on the 4th of October 1886 which focused on copyright for writers painters and musicians.
China joined the Hague System as its 77th member effective the 5th of May 2022. This system extends international registration logic to industrial designs allowing up to 100 designs to be registered through one application.