Specifically, TRIPS requires WTO members to provide copyright rights, covering authors and other copyright holders, as well as holders of related rights, namely performers, sound recording producers and broadcasting organisations; geographical indications; industrial designs; integrated circuit layout-designs; patents;
Article 15
Where signs are not inherently capable of distinguishing the relevant goods or services, Members may make registrability depend on distinctiveness acquired through use.
Members may require, as a condition of registration, that signs be visually perceptible.
The TRIPS Agreement allows compulsory licensing as part of the Agreement's overall balance between promoting access to existing drugs and promoting research and development into new drugs.23 jan. 2017