Nepal , as a developing country, has various functions to be developed specially in the field of intellectual property. Even if Nepal has vivid and rich cultural, artistic and natural diversity and treasure of traditional knowledge, development of modern intellectual property jurisprudence have been a subject of much interest and also a subject for scrutiny for the purpose of both, in order to know the secret for development in socio-economic as well as technological development. Intellectual property has been the vital subject for inspiring the people to the side of modern edge of knowledge and technology base society. But there is a lack of such an institution to support Nepalese civil society especially in relation to intellectual property rights. The Centre for Intellectual Property Nepal (CIPN) was established for the sake of filling this gap by following an initiative of the individual desert to create and understand the role of intellectual property to the present human community. CIPN was founded in response to an increasing need felt by authors, artisans, performers, scientists, technologists, business personalities, companies and lawyers as well as other civil societies in order to gain a profound knowledge and create an appropriate endeavour in the field of intellectual property. It has been established with the aim of fulfilling the gap of necessity of such an institution, which is competent to function in multiple dimensions of intellectual property rights.

CIPN organizes a manifold of activities on an interdisciplinary level for the sake of concretizing its object. Fundamental activities of CIPN are research & study, advocacy & awareness program including training program in the field of intellectual property rights and service to the individual or institution and other firms as well within the territory and also the extra territory. As a consequence of its various activities the CIPN has acquired an established reputation in the field.