Seven kinds of intellectual property rights, such as copyright and related rights, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, patents, layout-designs of integrated circuits, and undisclosed information including trade secrets.
main clause
The main clauses are:
General principles and basic principles, on the effectiveness, scope and use standards of intellectual property rights, enforcement of intellectual property rights, acquisition, maintenance and related procedures of intellectual property rights, prevention and settlement of disputes, transitional arrangements, institutional arrangements, final clauses, etc.
The main contents of the agreement are:
Put forward and reiterated the basic principles of intellectual property protection, and established the basic relationship between intellectual property agreements and other international conventions on intellectual property.
The Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights requires all members to grant patents on medicines, which has a negative impact on people in developing countries to obtain medicines for treating various epidemics at affordable prices.
With the vigorous promotion of developing countries, the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization held in Doha in 2000/KLOC-0 adopted the Declaration on the Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health.
The Declaration recognizes the seriousness of public health problems faced by many developing countries and emphasizes the need to make corresponding amendments to the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights as part of the international community's measures to solve public health problems.
According to the requirements of the Declaration, the General Council of the World Trade Organization adopted a resolution to implement the Doha Declaration in 2003, and adopted the corresponding amendments to the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights before the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in Hong Kong in 2005.
Before 1883, the international protection of intellectual property rights was mainly realized by concluding bilateral international treaties. 1883 After the publication of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the madrid agreement concerning the international registration of marks were successively concluded.
In a century or so, countries all over the world mainly rely on these multilateral international treaties to coordinate the vastly different intellectual property systems among countries and reduce intellectual property disputes in international exchanges.
The Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights of the World Trade Organization was concluded with all other agreements of the World Trade Organization in 1994, and it is the international treaty that has the greatest influence on the intellectual property laws and systems of various countries so far. Compared with previous international treaties on intellectual property rights, the agreement has three outstanding features.