What are the articles used by the TRIPS?

TRIPS — Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights . The WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is the most comprehensive multilateral agreement on intellectual property (IP).

The TRIPS Agreement is a minimum standards agreement, which allows Members to provide more extensive protection of intellectual property if they so wish . Members are left free to determine the appropriate method of implementing the provisions of the Agreement within their own legal system and practice.

It is an agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures which specifies the rules that are applicable to the domestic regulations a country applies to foreign investors . The agreement is applicable to all members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The agreement was formalized in 1994 and came into effect in 1995.

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