The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an international platform for intellectual property coordination and policy harmonization. It is a financially independent unit of the United Nations and comprises 193 member countries.
The WIPO's quest is to nurture the growth of a steady and efficient international mechanism to facilitate inventiveness for humanity.
The World Intellectual Property Organization was incepted in 1967. Its powers and protocols are enshrined in the
WIPO convention.
The WIPO intellectual property handbook sheds light on the need for intellectual property regulations to provide statutory protection to innovators, ensuring they derive economic value from their creativity