The Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Awareness Ghana (CIPRAG) in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (VIPO) has commemorated the World Intellectual Property (IP) day with a call on the individual to legally protect their intellectual innovations.
The World IP Day is an annual event marked worldwide to acknowledge and promote the value of intellectual property such as patents, copyrights, trademarks and deigns in the development of World economies.
This year’s IP Day was celebrated on the theme: IP and Youth, Innovation for better future
Speaking on ATLFM’s Atlantic Wave, the treasurer of CIPRAG, Mr. Isaac Nketsia explained that anything that is developed from the mind is classified as an IP and needs to be protected.
“Any creation that comes from the mind, we add legal backing to it so that legally, it will be ascribed to you alone. The importance is that IP drives innovations. It gives rewards to the creators,” he added.
He therefore urged the individual to strive and protect their intellectual properties.
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Commenting on the adapted theme for the celebration in Ghana: The Future of Intellectual Property in Ghana: the role of the youth in building an innovative and resilient economy, lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, he said the youth play a crucial role in driving the innovative role of the country for the desired economic development, hence the need to focus on the youth in this year’s IP Day celebration.
Mr. Nketia explained that, “the World Intellectual Property Organization is linking this year’s celebration to the youth because they think that all the good things that we see, the creative things, innovations are all coming out form the youth so we have to now focus on the youth to now embed in them the issue of creativity and innovation”.
Source: Eric Sekyi/ATLFMNEWS
