TRIPS refers to the Agreement on Trade-related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which is a multilateral trade agreement under the World Trade Organization system. TRIPS consists of seven parts and 73 articles, covering copyright and neighboring rights, trademark rights, geographical indications rights, industrial product design rights, patent rights, integrated circuit layout design rights and undisclosed information exclusive rights.
The Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights is one of the important agreements on intellectual property protection among the 28 separate world trade agreements reached in the Uruguay Round of GATT. The emergence of this agreement has a certain background of the times. In recent years, the relationship between intellectual property rights and international trade has become increasingly close, and the increase of intellectual property cases has affected the normal development of international trade.
TRIPS is the English abbreviation of GATT intellectual property agreement. With the great changes in the world economy and trade pattern, the protection of intellectual property rights has been paid more and more attention by countries all over the world, and TRIPS came into being under this situation. TRIPS plays an important role in all WTO agreements, and Article 39 of TRIPS provides protection for "undisclosed information".
Introduction to the WTO:
1, basic introduction.
The World Trade Organization is a permanent international organization independent of the United Nations, which is responsible for supervising the implementation of various trade agreements among member economies. The headquarters of the World Trade Organization is located in Lake Lemmon, Geneva, Switzerland. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is one of the most important international economic organizations in the contemporary era. The total trade volume of its members reaches 98% of the world, and it is known as the "Economic United Nations".
2. Basic principles.
The principle of reciprocity, also known as the principle of reciprocity, is one of the most important principles of the WTO, which means that two members give each other preferential treatment in international trade. It clarifies the basic positions that member countries must take in tariff and trade negotiations and what kind of trade relations must be established between them.
3. Organizational functions.
The World Trade Organization is responsible for supervising and managing the trade policies and regulations of its member countries, and regularly reviewing them to ensure their legitimacy; In order to achieve the established goals of various agreements and agreements, the World Trade Organization has the right to organize and implement various trade agreements and agreements within its jurisdiction and actively take various effective measures.