2022, the campaign attracted users from 189 member states. World Intellectual Property Day events around the world Every year hundreds of events are organized around the world by IP offices, law firms, private companies, students and others to celebrate inventors and creators and to promote understanding about the intellectual property system and its associated rights (e.g. copyrights, trademarks, patents, design rights, trade secrets, plant variety rights). World Intellectual Property Day events are an opportunity to explore different aspects of the intellectual property system and how innovators, creators and businesses can use it to add value to their ingenuity and creativity. It is also an opportunity shine a light on the IP system’s role in supporting economic, social and cultural development for the benefit of everyone, everywhere. At its core, the IP system seeks to balance the interests of inventors and creators with those of the general public through the grant of time-limited rights that meet pre-established conditions as set out in international treaties negotiated by WIPO’s member states. During the period in which the rights are valid (this varies according to the right concerned), the holder of that right holds exclusive rights. This means they may determine who may or may not exploit their work and the terms under which they may do so. After that time-period has lapsed, the IP-protected work falls into the public domain and may be used by anyone without the obligation to first seek permission from the rights owner. WIPO’s role is to lead the development of a balanced intellectual property system.The laws governing intellectual property at the international level are enshrined in various international treaties administered by WIPO. These international treaties have been negotiated by member states since the emergence of the international IP system in 1883 following the conclusion of the Paris Convention for the International Protection of Industrial Property. The so-called Paris Convention and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, concluded in 1886, are the pillars of the international IP system and the foundations of the International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI), the organization, which preceded WIPO before the entry into force of the Convention establishing WIPO in 1970. While World Intellectual Property Day is celebrated every year on April 26, many countries hold their World Intellectual Property Day celebrations on another date. Some, including Peru and Singapore, organize a World Intellectual Property Day