On the occasion of celebrating the World Intellectual Property Day on the 26th of April, Romfilatelia introduces into circulation a postage stamps issue dedicated to this event.
In 1883 was concluded the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and, in 1886, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works was signed - these being the international framework regulations governing the industrial property law and copyrights.
These conventions, considering the entire family of intellectual property rights, include invention patents, registered trademarks, drawings and models, geographical indications, the copyrights and related rights. The trademark protects how a producer is identified, and the copyright protects the original works, such as literary, artistic or scientific ones.
Established in 1967, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), one of the 15 specialised agencies of the United Nations (UN), has as main responsibilities to develop a worldwide intellectual property system able to reward creativity, to boost innovation and to contribute to the economic development. Based in Geneva, the organization has 185 members and manages 25 international treaties. This year, the motto of the World Intellectual Property Day is Creativity - The Next Generation.
Conveying a special approach to this theme, Romfilatelia illustrates three female personalities and their inventions on the postage stamps, under the name Women and Inventics.
Stefania Maracineanu (1882-1944), famous in the scientific world as the physicist who discover artificial radioactivity in 1924 is illustrated on the postage stamp with the face value of lei 1.00.
Josephine Cochrane (1839-1913), born in the USA - State of Illinois, and illustrated on the postage stamp with the face value of lei 3.30, was the inventor of the dishwasher. The company named after her became known on the dishwasher machine market, especially for hotels and restaurants, and also on the household electrical appliance market. The company changed its name into Kitchen Aid, subsequently becoming a part of the Whirlpool Corporation.
The postage stamp with the face value of lei 9.10 illustrates Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992), pioneer in the field of informatics, who developed the first compiler for a computer programming language and created one of the first modern computer programming languages - COBOL - which were developed independently from equipments.
