The TRIPS Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis (Perspectives on Intellectualy Property Law)
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 042159490X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 440 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Phillip Taylor MBE said There's no TRIP up on IP matters here. You may already know this, but if you need reminding, TRIPS means Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. As Professor Gervais attests, this very thorough and detailed guide from Sweet & Maxwell aims to provide a complete set of tools to understand the unique mixture of trade rules and intellectual property concepts now known as TRIPS.Part I of the book `provides the necessary background for understanding the TRIPS Agreement, `whose birth,' writes Daniel Gervais, `was quite unlike any other agreement in the field of intellectual property.'Th
This work provides practitioners with the first in-depth, article-by-article analysis of the TRIPS Agreement. For each article it describes the evolution of the provision and its negotiating history, difficulties in its interpretation and application, and the key points practitioners must consider in their work. * The first definitive study of the TRIPS agreement for practitioners * Answers practitioners' detailed questions on each article of the agreement * Comparative tables set out side by side the full text of the three most important versions of each article. In addition, it examines the history and context of the Agreement and assesses its likely impact on the future development of the international intellectual property framework