Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights: A Commentary on the TRIPS Agreement (Oxford Commentaries on GATT/WTO Agreements) - Hardcover

Correa, Carlos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199271283 ISBN 13: 9780199271283

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

The TRIPS Agreement which was adopted in 1994 is the most comprehensive and influential international treaty on intellectual property rights. It brings intellectual property rules into the framework of the World Trade Organization, and requires massive changes in national laws, particularly in developing countries. This volume provides a detailed legal analysis of the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement, as well as the jurisprudence already developed in the context of the World Trade Organization.

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About the Author

Carlos Correa is Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Industrial Property Law and Economics, University of Buenos Aires; author of several books and numerous articles on law and economics, particularly on investment, technology and intellectual property; Director of the UNDP/UNIDO Regional Program on Informatics and Microelectronics for Latin America and the Caribbean from 1990 to 1995; a consultant to UNCTAD, UNIDO, WHO, FAO, Inter American Development Bank, INTAL, World Bank, SELA, ECLA, UNDP and other regional and international organizations in different areas of law and economics, including investment, science and technology and intellectual property; and Director of the Post-graduate Courses on Intellectual Property and of the Masters Program on Science and Technology Policy and Management of the University of Buenos Aires.

Review

Another thing that appeals..is the author's way of reading TRIPs in the light of the rules of interpretation in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties - a provision that rarely gets a mention in intellectual property circles, at least where common law interpretational techniques hold sway. ..congratulations to the author on putting together a well-written and helpfully referenced work - and to the publishers for keeping the price tag below the .. GBP100 mark. * Jeremy Phillips, www.ipkat.com * '..provides much valuable material to read and consider..a comprehensive and accessible analysis of TRIPs, taking in (i) examination of the rights and duties of WTO members in implementing it, (ii) a forward-looking analysis of the developments in digital copyright as well as (iii) discussion of TRIPs' crucial enforcement provisionsa well-written and helpfully-referenced work..'

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0199271283
• ISBN 13: 9780199271283
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 616