New Hampshire Celebrates Inventors and Artists

CONCORD, NH: New Hampshire Governor John Lynch proclaimed April 26, 2005 as Intellectual Property Day in New Hampshire. This date coincides with the World Intellectual Property day celebrated by many countries and commemorates the formation of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a body that helps provide a global forum for Intellectual Property issues.

“The New Hampshire Bar Association Intellectual Property Section is pleased that the Governor of New Hampshire proclaimed April 26 as New Hampshire Intellectual Property Day, recognizing the artists and inventors contributing to the State's history and forging its future development, and recognizing the legal rights enabling that development," said Ashlyn Lembree, Chair of the New Hampshire Bar Association Intellectual Property Section and an attorney at Wiggin & Nourie, P.A.

Intellectual property refers to the intangible aspects related to creations of the mind. The books we read, the movies we watch, and the music we listen to, are just some of the artistic forms of Intellectual Property. The safety of our vehicles, new vaccines and medications, as well as the hardware and software that allow us to communicate, are some of the vast array of technological forms of Intellectual Property.

According to Scott Asmus, a Patent Attorney from Maine & Asmus in Nashua, “The United States of America and New Hampshire in particular, have a proud and distinguished history of technological advancements as well as generating exemplary works in literature, art and music. The present-day artists and inventors of New Hampshire continue this tradition by pioneering inventions and creating thoughtful and imaginative artistic works. The world could use a few more inventors like Dean Kamen.”

As noted by Phil Decker, an attorney at Mesmer & Deleault, “We should use this day as an opportunity to reflect on the human creativity of the artists and innovators that influence our lives. For example, New Hampshire traditionally ranks in the top ten for issued patents per capita, a demonstration that Yankee ingenuity continues.”

New Hampshire is also fortunate to have Franklin Pierce Law Center, one of the preeminent Intellectual Property law schools in the world, as well as a group of skilled practitioners that help protect the legal rights of these artists and inventors. More information about the New Hampshire Intellectual Property Law Section is available at www.NHIPLAW.org.

A text copy of the proclamation is attached hereto:

State of New Hampshire
By His Excellency
John Lynch, Governor
A Proclamation
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DAY
APRIL 26, 2005

WHEREAS, The human creativity of artists and innovators impacts our lives in great ways; and
WHEREAS, New Hampshire’s technological and artistic history have advanced the well-being of our citizens and culture; and
WHEREAS, Art, literature, food, music, medicine, transportation safety devices, and computers are all valuable forms of Intellectual Property; and
WHEREAS, The present-day artists and inventors of New Hampshire are pioneers through the inventions they create and the art they produce; and
WHEREAS, Intellectual Property has a daily effect on our lives and is brought to us through the hard work, dedication, and genius of those who venture to pursue it;

NOW THEREFORE, I, JOHN H. LYNCH, GOVERNOR of the state of New Hampshire, do hereby proclaim APRIL 26, 2005, as INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DAY in New Hampshire

Given at the Executive Chamber in Concord, this 8th day of April, in the year of Our Lord two thousand and five, and the independence of the United States of America, two hundred and twenty-nine.

John H. Lynch
Governor