A Handbook on the WTO TRIPS Agreement - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107023165 ISBN 13: 9781107023161

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.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107023165
• ISBN 13: 9781107023161
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 410
• Editor: Taubman Antony, Wager Hannu, Watal Jayashree