A HANDBOOK ON THE WTO TRIPS AGREEMENT

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Antony Taubman is Director of the Intellectual Property Division of the WTO Secretariat.WTO authors provide a comprehensive and nontechnical explanation of the WTO Agreement on TradeRelated Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).This handbook provides a comprehensive and nontechnical explanation of the WTO Agreement on TradeRelated Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) later legal instruments current policy issues and the relationship between TRIPS and public health. It is aimed at an audience including government officials and policymakers nongovernmental organizations academics and students.This handbook provides a comprehensive and nontechnical explanation of the WTO Agreement on TradeRelated Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) later legal instruments current policy issues and the relationship between TRIPS and public health. It is aimed at an audience including government officials and policymakers nongovernmental organizations academics and students.This handbook describes the historical and legal background to the TRIPS Agreement its role in the WTO and its institutional framework and reviews the following areas: general provisions and basic principles: copyright and related rights: trademarks: geographical indications: patents: industrial designs layoutdesigns undisclosed information and anticompetitive practices: enforcement of IPRs: dispute settlement in the context of the TRIPS Agreement: TRIPS and public health: and current TRIPS issues. It contains a guide to TRIPS notifications by WTO members and describes how to access and make use of the official documentation relating to the TRIPS Agreement and related issues. Furthermore it includes the legal texts of the TRIPS Agreement and the relevant provisions of the WIPO conventions referred to in it as well as subsequent relevant WTO instruments.1. Introduction to the TRIPS Agreement: 2. Copyright and related rights: 3. Trademarks: 4. Geographical indications: 5. Patents: 6. Industrial designs layoutdesigns of integrated circuits undisclosed information anticompetitive practices: 7. Enforcement: 8. Dispute prevention and settlement: 9. TRIPS and public health: 10. Current TRIPS issues: Appendix 1. Guide to TRIPS notifications: Appendix 2. Guide to TRIPS documents: Annex 1. Agreement on TradeRelated Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) 1994: Annex 2. Provisions of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1967) referred to in the TRIPS Agreement: Annex 3. Provisions of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1971) referred to in the TRIPS Agreement: Annex 4. Provisions of the International Convention for the Protection of Performers Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations (The Rome Convention) (1961) referred to in the TRIPS Agreement: Annex 5. Provisions of the Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Integrated Circuits (1989) referred to in the TRIPS Agreement: An

Data Publikacji: 2012-04-26
Wymiary: 228 mm 152 mm 24 mm 720 gr