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A Handbook on the WTO TRIPS Agreement
Author(s): Antony Taubman (Editor), Hannu Wager (Editor), Jayashree Watal (Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: 26 April 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 410 pages
- ISBN-10: 1107023165
- ISBN-13: 9781107023161
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
WTO authors provide a comprehensive and non-technical explanation of the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
About the Author
Antony Taubman is Director of the Intellectual Property Division of the WTO Secretariat.
Hannu Wager is a senior officer in the Intellectual Property Division of the WTO Secretariat.
Jayashree Watal is a senior officer in the Intellectual Property Division of the WTO Secretariat.
