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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 elements to consider 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. It discusses the interpretation of the Agreement's provisions and the WTO jurisprudence already developed on certain aspects of the Agreement. It also includes a brief discussion on emerging issues such as protection of traditional knowledge, and on options for further developments e.g. copyright in a digital environment, and the relationship with competition law. It also takes into account recent developments in bilateral agreements and free trade agreements that contain TRIPS-plus standards of protection. The Preamble and general provisions of the TRIPS Agreement are addressed, as well as the substantive rules on copyright and related rights, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, patents, integrated circuits, trade secrets and test data. The controversies about the implementation and interpretation of these provisions are highlighted, including the content an implications of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health of November 2001, and of the WTO Decision of August 30, 2003 relating to access to medicines. The book also analyses the crucial enforcement provisions and other aspects of the Agreement.

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• List of Abbreviations(p. xv)
• Table of Cases(p. xvii)
• Table of International Instruments and National Laws(p. xx)
• Chapter 1 Preamble(p. 1)
• The purpose of the TRIPS Agreement(p. 1)
• Annex(p. 19)
• Chapter 2 Nature and Scope of Obligations(p. 22)
• Coverage of the Agreement(p. 22)
• Utility models or petty patents(p. 36)
• Breeders' rights(p. 36)
• Databases(p. 38)
• Unfair competition(p. 38)
• Domain names(p. 39)
• Intellectual property conventions(p. 44)
• National treatment(p. 51)
• Most-favoured nation(p. 65)
• Multilateral agreements on acquisition or maintenance of protection(p. 72)
• Annex(p. 73)
• Chapter 3 International Exhaustion of Rights(p. 78)
• Annex(p. 89)
• Chapter 4 Objectives and Principles(p. 91)
• The interpretive value of Article 7(p. 91)
• IPRs and innovation(p. 95)
• Transfer and dissemination of technology(p. 97)
• Social and economic welfare(p. 99)
• Balance of rights and obligations(p. 101)
• Principles(p. 103)
• Abuse of IPRs(p. 110)
• Practices which unreasonably restrain trade(p. 111)
• Practices which adversely affect the international transfer of technology(p. 112)
• Annex(p. 113)
• Chapter 5 Copyright and Related Rights(p. 115)
• Relation to the Berne Convention(p. 116)
• Computer programs and compilation of data(p. 123)
• Rental rights(p. 128)
• Term of protection(p. 131)
• Limitations and exceptions(p. 134)
• The three-step test(p. 146)
• Related rights(p. 155)
• Annex(p. 168)
• Chapter 6 Trademarks(p. 174)
• Subject matter(p. 175)
• Requirement of use for application and registration(p. 180)
• Rights conferred(p. 184)
• Exceptions(p. 193)
• Term of protection(p. 196)
• Use as a condition to maintain registration(p. 196)
• Other requirements(p. 199)
• Licensing and assignment(p. 201)
• Annex(p. 203)
• Chapter 7 Geographical Indications(p. 209)
• Terminology(p. 211)
• Prior conventions(p. 213)
• Paris Convention(p. 214)
• Madrid Agreement(p. 215)
• Lisbon Agreement(p. 215)
• Protection of geographical indications under TRIPS(p. 217)
• Additional protection for geographical indications for wines and spirits under TRIPS(p. 232)
• International negotiations: exceptions(p. 240)
• Annex(p. 252)
• Chapter 8 Industrial Designs(p. 257)
• International conventions and TRIPS(p. 259)
• Requirements for protection(p. 260)
• Protection(p. 265)
• Annex(p. 269)
• Chapter 9 Patents(p. 271)
• Patentable subject matter(p. 271)
• Non-discrimination(p. 281)
• Exclusions to patentability(p. 287)
• Rights conferred(p. 294)
• Conditions on patent applicants(p. 300)
• Exceptions to rights conferred(p. 302)
• Experimental use(p. 304)
• Bolar exception(p. 304)
• Compulsory licenses(p. 311)
• Other use without authorization of the right-holder(p. 311)
• Environmental protection(p. 319)
• Conditions for the granting of compulsory licences(p. 320)
• Lack of manufacturing capacity in pharmaceuticals(p. 324)
• For what purposes can the system be used?(p. 328)
• Notification of intention to use the system(p. 329)
• Notification about needed products, compulsory licence(p. 330)
• Establishing lack of, or insufficient, manufacturing capacity(p. 331)
• Confirming the intention to grant a compulsory licence(p. 332)
• Compulsory license in the exporting country(p. 333)
• Amount necessary to meet needs(p. 334)
• Identification of product(p. 334)
• Labelling and marks(p. 334)
• Packaging, colouring, and shaping(p. 335)
• Notification by the supplier(p. 336)
• Notification by the exporting country(p. 337)
• Anti-diversion measures(p. 338)
• Suspension of the system(p. 339)
• Operation of the system(p. 339)
• Revocation and forfeiture(p. 342)
• Term of protection(p. 343)
• Reversal of the burden of proof(p. 344)
• Annex I Negotiating history(p. 346)
• Annex II Annex to the TRIPS Agreement(p. 348)
• Appendix to the annex to the TRIPS agreement(p. 350)
• Chapter 10 Layout-Designs (Topographies) of Integrated Circuits(p. 352)
• Relation to the IPIC Treaty(p. 352)
• Scope of the protection(p. 357)
• Acts not requiring the authorization of the right-holder(p. 361)
• Term of protection(p. 362)
• Annex(p. 363)
• Chapter 11 Undisclosed Information(p. 366)
• Protection under unfair competition(p. 366)
• Conditions for protection(p. 369)
• Test data of pharmaceutical and agrochemical products(p. 374)
• Data necessary for marketing approval(p. 377)
• Undisclosed data(p. 377)
• New chemical entities(p. 378)
• Considerable effort (investment)(p. 379)
• Non-disclosure obligation(p. 380)
• Acts of unfair commercial use(p. 381)
• Unfair(p. 381)
• Commercial(p. 383)
• Use(p. 384)
• Relying on data(p. 385)
• Means of protection against unfair commercial use(p. 387)
• Annex(p. 392)
• Chapter 12 Control of Restrictive Practices in Contractual Licences(p. 395)
• Anti-competitive practices in contractual licences(p. 398)
• Consultation system(p. 404)
• Annex(p. 406)
• Chapter 13 Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights(p. 409)
• General obligations(p. 410)
• Civil and administrative procedures and remedies(p. 417)
• Fair and equitable procedures(p. 417)
• Evidence(p. 420)
• Injunctions(p. 422)
• Damages(p. 426)
• Other remedies(p. 427)
• Right of information(p. 429)
• Indemnification of the defendant(p. 430)
• Administrative procedures(p. 432)
• Provisional measures(p. 433)
• Special requirements related to border measures [12](p. 438)
• Suspension of release by customs authorities(p. 438)
• Application(p. 441)
• Security or equivalent assurance(p. 442)
• Notice of suspension(p. 444)
• Duration of suspension(p. 444)
• Indemnification of the importer and of the owner of the goods(p. 445)
• Right of inspection and information(p. 446)
• Ex officio action(p. 446)
• Remedies(p. 447)
• De minimis imports(p. 448)
• Criminal procedures(p. 448)
• Annex(p. 451)
• Chapter 14 Acquisition and Maintenance of Intellectual Property Rights, Dispute Prevention and Settlement, Transitional and Institutional Arrangements, and Final Provisions(p. 467)
• Acquisition and maintenance of IPRs(p. 467)
• Dispute prevention and settlement(p. 472)
• Dispute settlement(p. 479)
• Transitional arrangements(p. 491)
• Transitional period for least-developed countries(p. 495)
• Technology transfer to LDCs(p. 500)
• Institutional arrangements and final provisions(p. 504)
• Council for TRIPS(p. 504)
• International cooperation(p. 506)
• Protection of existing subject matter(p. 506)
• Pharmaceutical and agrochemical products(p. 514)
• Review and amendment(p. 517)
• Reservations(p. 519)
• Security exceptions(p. 519)
• Annex(p. 520)
• Appendix 1 (p. 533)
• Appendix 2 (p. 563)
• Index(p. 565)

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Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Industrial Property Law and Economics, University of Buenos Aires; author of several books and numerous articles on law and economics, particularly on investment, technology and intellectual property; Director of the UNDP/UNIDO Regional Program on Informatics and Microelectronics for Latin America and the Caribbean from 1990 to 1995; a consultant to UNCTAD, UNIDO, WHO, FAO, Inter American Development Bank, INTAL, World Bank, SELA, ECLA, UNDP and other regional and international organizations in different areas of law and economics, including investment, science and technology and intellectual property; and Director of the Post-graduate Courses on Intellectual Property and of the Masters Program on Science and Technology Policy and Management of the University of Buenos Aires.