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World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- Established as the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (French acronym BIRPI) in 1893; renamed World Intellectual Property Organization in 1970; became a Specialized Agency of the United Nations in 1974.
- Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (1967)
- Entered into force in 1970
- Relationship Agreement with UN (1974)
- Governing Bodies
- WIPO General Assembly
- Coordination Committee
- Legal texts
- Flagship publications
- Intellectual Property Statistics
- Library
- Directors General
- 2020-: Daren Tang (Singapore)
- 2008-2020: Francis Gurry (Australia)
- 1997-2008: Kamil E. Idris (Sudan)
- 1973-1997: Arpad Bogsch (United States of America) (Press release BIO/1204-SA/228 [1973])
- 1963-1973: Georg Bodenhausen (Netherlands)
- 1953-1963: Jacques Secrétan (Switzerland)
- 1938-1953: Benigne Mentha (Switzerland)
- 1926-1938: Fritz Ostertag (Switzerland)
- 1922-1926: Ernest Rothlisberger (Switzerland)
- 1912-1921: Robert Comtesse (Switzerland)
- 1888-1912: Henri Morel (Switzerland)
