TOKYO, April 28 -- Japan Patent Office issued the following news:

April 26 is designated as World Intellectual Property Day, commemorating the day when the treaty establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) came into force!

Under the 2025 World IP Day theme of "IP and music: Feel the beat of IP" and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Japan's accession to WIPO and the 10th anniversary of its accession to the Hague Agreement, the WIPO Japan Office held a commemorative event in Tokyo on April 23.

At the event, JPO Commissioner ONO delivered a speech expressing his hope that the event would serve as an opportunity for people to develop an interest in IP while discussing the relationship between music and patents, as we...