A Handbook on the WTO TRIPS Agreement - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107625297 ISBN 13: 9781107625297

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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, layout-designs, undisclosed information and anti-competitive 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.

About this title

Book Description:

This handbook provides a comprehensive and non-technical explanation of the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related 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 policy-makers, non-governmental organizations, academics and students.

From the Back Cover:

The Handbook on the WTO TRIPS Agreement describes the historical and legal background to the TRIPS Agreement, as well as its role in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its institutional framework. This background to the TRIPS Agreement is accompanied by the legal texts of the Agreement itself.
 
This unique publication, produced by the Intellectual Property Division of the WTO, is an invaluable reference for anyone working in or researching intellectual property issues, and particularly those connected with WTO matters.
 
The book 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 connected issues. As well as the legal texts of the TRIPS Agreement, the publication also contains the relevant provisions of the WIPO conventions referred to within the TRIPS Agreement, as well as subsequent relevant WTO instruments.
 
The publication has been divided into sections reviewing general provisions and basic principles, copyright and related rights, trademarks, geographical indications, patents, industrial designs, layout-designs, undisclosed information and anti-competitive practices, enforcement of intellectual property rights, dispute settlement in the context of the TRIPS Agreement, TRIPS and public health, and current TRIPS issues.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107625297
• ISBN 13: 9781107625297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 410
• Editor: World Trade Organization, Hannu Wager, Jayashree Watal