Resources for Students

• WIPO Academy is a centre of teaching, training and research. The extensive resources offered include online distance learning courses in IP, reference lists of research papers, and presentations by expert speakers.
• Treaties gives access to all the WIPO-administered treaties, with summaries, and lists membership of each.
• Development of IP Law covers WIPO’s role in assisting Member States to develop international IP laws and standards.
• Copyright information resources links to working documents, studies and publications, prepared or commissioned by WIPO on topics related to copyright and related rights.
• Traditional Knowledge, genetic resources, and traditional cultural expressions (folklore) is an evolving area, in which WIPO provides a forum for international policy debate, and for the development of draft legal mechanisms.
• The WIPO University Initiative program helps participating universities to promote the understanding and use of IP among students and researchers.
• E-Bookshop and Free Information Products offer a wide range of WIPO guides, handbooks and other publications, which can be browsed by subject matter or by publication type.
• WIPO Magazine reports on WIPO activities, and features articles which bring to life the workings of intellectual property, innovation and creativity in developed and developing countries.
• Visit WIPO
• WIPO Information Center is a visitor center, offering  information materials and exhibitions on IP.

For younger students

• Learn from the Past; Create the Future is WIPO’s new series of publications designed to provide a hands-on introduction to IP in the classroom or for individual reading.
• At Home with Invention offers an interactive tour of inventions in the home.
• Your Own World of IP is a booklet illustrating how copyright, patents, designs and trademarks work in everyday products .
• The WIPO comic books, Patents ; Trademarks ; Copyright , have proved popular with all age groups and are translated into many languages.