A handbook on the WTO TRIPS agreement / edited by Anthony Taubman, World Trade Organization; Hannu Wager, World Trade Organization; Jayashree Watal, World Trade Organization; Anthony Martin, World Trade Organization.

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Taubman, Antony

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: WTO internal onlyPublication details: United Kinhdom: Cambrdge, c 2020.Edition: [Second edition]Description: xxviii, 430 pages.: illustrations.; 23 cmISBN:

9781108799928
9781108835282

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: A handbook on the WTO TRIPS agreementDDC classification:

346.048 23 TAU-H 2020 305023

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Full text available from Cambridge eBooks and Partner Presses: Law EBA, All Law

Contents:

Introduction to the TRIPS Agreement -- Copyright and related rights -- Trademarks -- Geographical indications -- Patents -- Industrial designs, layout-designs of integrated circuits -- Undisclosed information, anti-competitive practices -- Enforcement -- Dispute prevention and settlement -- TRIPS and public health -- Current TRIPS issues.

Summary: "At the heart of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a set of rules that regulate trade between nations: a body of agreements which have been negotiated and signed by governments of most of the world's trading nations, with the aim of promoting transparency, predictability and non-discrimination in trading relations. These agreements, covering trade in goods, trade in services and trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights, help to define and inform the multiple roles of the WTO as an international, intergovernmental organisation, in administering the provisions of these agreements, providing a forum for trade negotiations, handling trade disputes, monitoring national trade policies, providing technical assistance and capacity building for developing countries, and cooperating with other international organizations. Understanding these agreements and their practical, policy and legal contexts therefore provides significant insights into the WTO as an institution, its activities and international role, its partnerships with other organizations, and the way in which WTO member governments identify and pursue their national interests through this intergovernmental forum. When, at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994, governments settled on the cluster of agreements that created and defined the WTO, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, or the TRIPS Agreement, was part of the package. The TRIPS Agreement was not negotiated as a stand-alone treaty, and did not enter into legal force on its own, but is one of the Multilateral Trade Agreements that are integral to the overarching Marrakes Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization. This status means that when the TRIPS Agreement entered into force in 1995, it was as part of a composite set of trade agreements that, together, are binding on countries that choose to join the WTO. The WTO Agreement also made disputes between members about trade and intellectual property subject to the same dispute settlement mechanism as is used for a wide range of trade issues. But the TRIPS Agreement also incorporated significant elements of the established multilateral intellectual property agreements administered by the UN specialized agency for intellectual property, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Hence the TRIPS Agreement has a dual character - an important element of international trade law, it also draws heavily on, and builds upon, the established heritage of international intellectual property (IP) law"--

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"At the heart of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a set of rules that regulate trade between nations: a body of agreements which have been negotiated and signed by governments of most of the world's trading nations, with the aim of promoting transparency, predictability and non-discrimination in trading relations. These agreements, covering trade in goods, trade in services and trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights, help to define and inform the multiple roles of the WTO as an international, intergovernmental organisation, in administering the provisions of these agreements, providing a forum for trade negotiations, handling trade disputes, monitoring national trade policies, providing technical assistance and capacity building for developing countries, and cooperating with other international organizations. Understanding these agreements and their practical, policy and legal contexts therefore provides significant insights into the WTO as an institution, its activities and international role, its partnerships with other organizations, and the way in which WTO member governments identify and pursue their national interests through this intergovernmental forum. When, at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994, governments settled on the cluster of agreements that created and defined the WTO, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, or the TRIPS Agreement, was part of the package. The TRIPS Agreement was not negotiated as a stand-alone treaty, and did not enter into legal force on its own, but is one of the Multilateral Trade Agreements that are integral to the overarching Marrakes Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization. This status means that when the TRIPS Agreement entered into force in 1995, it was as part of a composite set of trade agreements that, together, are binding on countries that choose to join the WTO. The WTO Agreement also made disputes between members about trade and intellectual property subject to the same dispute settlement mechanism as is used for a wide range of trade issues. But the TRIPS Agreement also incorporated significant elements of the established multilateral intellectual property agreements administered by the UN specialized agency for intellectual property, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Hence the TRIPS Agreement has a dual character - an important element of international trade law, it also draws heavily on, and builds upon, the established heritage of international intellectual property (IP) law"--