A Handbook on the WTO TRIPS Agreement
WTO authors provide a comprehensive explanation of the WTO Agreement on Trade-related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
Antony Taubman (Edited by), Hannu Wager (Edited by), Jayashree Watal (Edited by)
9781108799928, Cambridge University Press
Paperback, published 19 November 2020
458 pages
22.7 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.74 kg
This handbook describes the historical and legal background to the TRIPS Agreement, its role in the WTO and its institutional framework. It 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 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 and related non-WTO treaties. The new edition covers the public health revision of the Agreement that entered into force in 2017 and provides updates on other recent developments.
1. Introduction to the Trips Agreement
2. Copyright and Related Rights
3. Trademarks
4. Geographical Indications
5. Patents
6. Industrial Designs and Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits
7. Undisclosed Information, Unfair Competition and Anti-Competitive Practices
8. Enforcement
9. Dispute Prevention and Settlement
10. Trips and Public Health
11. Current Trips Issues.
Subject Areas: Intellectual property law [LNR], International economic & trade law [LBBM], International law [LB], Trade agreements [KCLT1], International trade [KCLT]