Thematic book exhibitions

Intellectual property: the 21st century

From April 23 to May 28, the book exhibition "Intellectual Property: the XXI Century" dedicated to the International Intellectual Property Day is open in the Documents of International Organizations reading room (room 207g).

This Day was established by the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in September 2000 (document WO/GA/26/2) and has been celebrated annually on April 26 since 2001. The date for this international holiday was not chosen by chance: it was on this day, in 1970, that the WIPO Convention entered into force, according to which the World Intellectual Property Organization was established.

International Intellectual Property Day is a unique opportunity to unite the efforts of society and jointly think about how intellectual property (IP) can help further the development of science and art around the world and promote technological innovation for the benefit of universal progress.

Every year, Intellectual Property Day is dedicated to a topic. The theme of the 2024 Day is "IP and SDGs: Innovation and creativity for the benefit of a common future." This is an opportunity to illustrate the central role that IP, innovation and creativity play in achieving the SDGs for the benefit of everyone.

The exhibition offered to readers includes about 100 documents in Russian and English. These are books, brochures, mimeographed UN materials, periodicals, booklets. These documents will introduce the reader to the development of intellectual property in the world, as well as to the activities of the World Intellectual Property Organization aimed at solving today's and tomorrow's problems in the field of IP protection and development.

The main part of the exposition consists of WIPO documents, including materials on international legislation in the field of intellectual property (conventions, treaties, agreements), literature on copyright, patents and trademarks, annual reports and brief reviews, etc. A separate section contains documents revealing the problems of intellectual property protection in the Republic of Belarus

Among the documents presented at the exhibition are materials of international scientific and practical conferences, collections of scientific articles, monographs, textbooks, etc.

The exposition includes the following thematic sections:

• Intellectual property: its role and place in the development of modern society
• International legal protection of intellectual property. Activities of WIPO
• Industrial designs, trademarks
• Patents
• Copyright and related rights
• Protection of intellectual property in the Republic of Belarus

The exhibition will be of interest to students, postgraduates, teachers of law and economics faculties, heads of enterprises, employees of research and applied institutes, legal advisers and anyone interested in intellectual property issues.

The Republic of Belarus has an effective system of intellectual property protection. Our country is a party to many multilateral international treaties operating under the auspices of WIPO, as well as a number of multilateral international treaties concluded within the framework of the CIS in the field of protection of industrial property, copyright and related rights.

Useful links:

• International Intellectual Property Day
• About intellectual property
• Ensuring respect for intellectual property
• Information and educational work in the field of IP
• IP education
• Information about patents and technologies
• Trademark Information
• Information about industrial designs
• Information about geographical indications
• Information about new plant varieties (UPOV)
• IP laws, contracts and court decisions
• IP resources
• WIPO Standards

The opening hours of the exhibition corresponds to the library’s opening hours.
Admission is by the library ticket or ticket of the library's social and cultural centre.

Phone for inquiries: (37517) 293 27 26.

The material was provided by the service department with official documents.