Write a short note on TRIPS Agreement.

Write a short note on TRIPS Agreement.

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Write a short note on TRIPS Agreement.

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TRIPS Agreement:

TRIPS:

• The agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is a an international agreement administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO) that sets down minimum standards for many forms of Intellectual Property (IP) regulation as applied to nationals of other WTO members.
• It was negotiated at the end of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1994.

TRIPS Agreement:

• The TRIPS Agreement introduced intellectual property law into the international trading system for the first time and remains the most comprehensive international agreement on intellectual property to date.
• In 2001, developing countries, concerned that developed countries were insisting on an overly narrow reading of TRIPS, initiated a round of talks that resulted in the Data Declaration.
• The Doha declaration is a WTO statement that clarifies the scope of TRIPS, stating for example that TRIPS can and should be interpreted in light of the goal "to promote access to medicines for all".
• Specifically, TRIPS requires WTO members to provide copyrights, covering content producers including performers, producers of sound recording and broadcasting organizations; geographical indications, including appellations of origin; industrial designs; integrated circuit layout-designs; patents; new plant varieties; trademarks; trade dress; and undisclosed or confidential information.
• TRIPS also specifies enforcement procedures, remedies, and dispute resolution information.
• TRIPS also specifies enforcement procedures, remedies, and dispute resolution procedures.
• Protection and enforcement of all intellectual property rights shall meet the objectives to contribute of technologies innovation and to the transfer and dissemination of technology, to the mutual advantage of producers and users of technological knowledge and in a manner conductive to social and economic welfare, and to a balance of rights and obligations.