Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
What are the trade-related aspects of TRIPS?
The TRIPS Agreement sets minimum standards of protection for copyrights and related rights, trademarks, geographical indications (GIs), industrial designs, patents, integrated circuit layout designs, and undisclosed information.
What are the types of intellectual property under TRIPS?
Further, the TRIPS Agreement defines intellectual property as all categories of intellectual property that are the subject of Sections 1 through 7 of Part II of the Agreement, namely copyright and related rights, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, patents, layout-designs (topographies) of
What are TRIPS and trims related to?
The correct answer is WTO.
The terms TRIPS and TRIMS are related to WTO.
- PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
One such protection is granted to trade secrets.
Companies develop valuable industrial processes and strategies that are not patentable and maybe are not even worth patenting expenses but are more advantageous to a company if they are no revealed through the patenting process.
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;