Subjects:

Intellectual Property Law

Contents:

Part 1

The emergence of the TRIPS Agreement during the Uruguay Round.

The evolution of TRIPS.

TRIPS and access to medicine.

TRIPS and electronic commerce.

TRIPS and traditional knowledge.

The logic of TRIPS.

Part 2

Article-by-article analysis of the Agreement: Standards concerning the availability, scope and use of IP rights.

Enforcement of IP rights.

Acquisition and maintenance of IP rights.

Dispute prevention and settlement.

Transitional arrangements.

Institutional arrangements: final provisions.

This acclaimed work provides practitioners with in-depth, article-by-article analysis of the TRIPS Agreement. For each article it describes the evolution of the provision and its negotiating history, difficulties in its interpretation and application, and the key points practitioners must consider in their work. In addition, it examines the history and context of the Agreement and assesses its likely impact on the future development of the international intellectual property framework.

• New edition of the definitive study of the TRIPS agreement for practitioners
  
• Answers practitioners' detailed questions on each article of the agreement
  
• Contains comprehensive coverage of the history and evolution of each provision
  
• Comparative tables set out side-by-side the full text of the three most important versions of each article
• Examines the likely future impact of TRIPS on the IP framework.