"Proposed amended text (synopsis)" [2011] ELECD 211; in Kur, Annette (ed), "Intellectual Property Rights in a Fair World Trade System" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Intellectual Property Rights in a Fair World Trade System

Editor(s): Kur, Annette

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849800099

Section Title: Proposed amended text (synopsis)

Number of pages: 71

Extract:

Proposed amended text (synopsis)
AGREEMENT ON TRADE-RELATED ASPECTS OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

PART I GENERAL 458
PROVISIONS AND
BASIC PRINCIPLES

PART II STANDARDS 468
CONCERNING THE
AVAILABILITY,
SCOPE AND USE
OF INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY RIGHTS

1. Copyright and Related Rights 468
2. Trademarks 474
3. Geographical Indications 480
4. Industrial Designs 487
5. Patents 490
6. Layout-Designs (Topographies) 502
of Integrated Circuits
7. Protection of Undisclosed 505
Information
8. Control of Anti-Competitive 507
Practices in Contractual
Licences

PART III ENFORCEMENT 509
OF INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY RIGHTS

1. General Obligations 509
. . .
Annex to the TRIPS Agreement 517
Appendix to the Annex to the
TRIPS Agreement 524

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456 IP rights in a fair world trade system

Members,
Desiring to reduce distortions
and impediments to international
trade, and taking into account
the need to promote effective and
adequate protection of intellec-
tual property rights, and to ensure
that measures and procedures to
enforce intellectual property rights
do not themselves become barriers
to legitimate trade;
Recognizing, to this end, the
need for new rules and disciplines
concerning:

(a) the applicability of the basic
principles of GATT 1994 and
of relevant international intel-
lectual property agreements
or conventions;
(b) the provision of adequate
standards and principles con-
cerning the availability, scope
and use of trade-related intel-
lectual property rights;
(c) the provision of effective and
appropriate means for the
enforcement of trade-related
intellectual property rights,
taking into account differences
in national legal systems;
(d) the provision of effective and
expeditious procedures ...