Trade related aspects of intellectual property rights
Subtitle: a commentary on the TRIPS agreement
By: Carlos Correa.
Series: Oxford commentaries on international law
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 573
ISBN-13: 9780199271283
Subjects: Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights -- (1994); Intellectual property (International law); Foreign trade regulation
Description: "The TRIPS Agreement 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, obliging all WTO Member States to meet minimum standards of intellectual property protection and enforcement. This has required massive changes in some national laws, particularly in developing countries. This volume provides a detailed legal analysis of the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement, as well as considering their economic implications in different legal and socio-economic contexts." "This book examines the obligations imposed on WTO Members in different fields of intellectual property, and thoroughly explores the flexibilities that they enjoy in implementing the Agreement."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preamble; title: Nature and scope of obligations; title: International exhaustion of rights; title: Objectives and principles; title: Copyright and related rights; title: Trademarks; title: Geographical indications; title: Industrial designs; title: Patents; title: Layout-designs (topographies) of integrated circuits; title: Undisclosed information; title: Control of restrictive practices in contractual licences; title: Enforcement of intellectual property rights; title: Acquisition and maintenance of intellectual property rights, dispute prevention and settlement, transitional and institutional arrangements and; title: acquisition and maintenance of IPRs.