世界知识产权日档案

1月24日，世界知识产权组织(WIPO)公布了今年世界知识产权日主题——奋力夺金：知识产权和体育。

　　据悉，今年4月26日是第19个世界知识产权日。WIPO官网指出，体育中蕴含的普世价值——卓越、尊重和公平竞争——吸引着来自全球的观众。如今，由于广播和通信技术的进步，任何人，无论身处何方，足不出户就能全天候欣赏体育赛事，追踪最喜爱的运动员和运动队的表现。体育已经成为一个价值数十亿美元的全球产业——带动从体育场馆到广播网络等设施方面的投入，在全球雇佣数百万相关从业人员，并为更多人带来娱乐。以知识产权为基础的商业关系有助于确保体育的经济价值。这样可以推动体育组织资助我们所享受的各项赛事，并且提供促进基层体育发展的方法，从而刺激体育产业增长。

　　WIPO官网称，今年的世界知识产权日活动将走进体育世界，探索创新创造以及激励并保护创新创造的知识产权如何助力全球体育发展和体育享受，审视体育企业如何利用专利和外观设计来推动体育方面的新技术、新材料、新训练方式和新设备的发展，以帮助提高体育成绩，吸引全球体育爱好者；审视体育明星如何能够通过与品牌赞助商合作并利用运动员自身品牌进行创收；探索广播权如何为体育和电视及其他媒体之间的关系奠定基础，这样的媒体使体育迷比以往更容易接触到体育赛事；仔细研究机器人技术和人工智能方面颠覆性的技术进步，这些技术正在推动所有体育领域发生变革。

　　据悉，世界知识产权日于2000年设立。WIPO每年为世界知识产权日确定一个活动主题，成员国围绕该主题举办各种宣传活动，突出知识产权在各国经济、文化和社会发展中的作用和贡献。

Every April 26, we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day to learn about the role that intellectual property (IP) rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity.

Faster, stronger, higher! The drive to test our abilities, the thrill of competition, and the awe we experience in watching ordinary people achieving extraordinary feats, have fueled our fascination with sports for thousands of years.

This year’s World Intellectual Property Day campaign – Going for Gold – takes a closer look inside the world of sports. It explores how innovation, creativity and the IP rights that encourage and protect them support the development of sport and its enjoyment around the world.

The universal values sports encompass – excellence, respect and fair play – power their global appeal. Today, thanks to advances in broadcasting and communications technologies, anyone, anywhere, can follow sporting action around the clock, tracking the performances of their favorite athletes and teams without leaving home.

Sports have become a multi-billion dollar global industry – one that generates investment in facilities (from sports stadia to broadcasting networks), employs millions of people around the world, and entertains many more.

Business relationships built on IP rights help to secure the economic value of sports. This, in turn, stimulates growth of the industry by enabling sporting organizations to finance the events we savor, and by providing the means to promote sports development at the grassroots.

We look at how sports businesses use patents and designs to foster the development of new sports technologies, materials, training, and equipment to help improve athletic performance and engage fans worldwide.

We find out how trademarks and branding maximize commercial revenue from sponsorship, merchandising and licensing agreements. These revenues offset the cost of organizing world class events, such as the Olympic Games and World Cup series, and ensure that the value and integrity of these spectacular events are safeguarded.

We look at how sports personalities are able to generate earnings from sponsorship deals with brand owners and by leveraging their own brands as athletes.

We explore how broadcasting rights underpin the relationship between sport and television and other media that bring fans ever closer to sporting action.

We zoom in on some of the game-changing technological advances in robotics and artificial intelligence that are driving change in all sports fields.

This year’s campaign is an opportunity to celebrate our sporting heroes, and all the people around the world who are innovating behind the scenes to boost sports’ performance and its global appeal.

Join us in celebrating the power of sports to engage and inspire, to innovate and unite us all in pushing the boundaries of human achievement.

Tell us about your sporting heroes and your favorite sports innovation, and share your views on the future of sports.