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Agreement on TRIPS TRIPS Agreement  When the WTO was established, it led to 18 specific agreements to which all members need to adhere. Members necessarily have to agree on all these agreements.  Among them, the most comprehensive multilateral agreement is the “Trade – Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights” (TRIPS) which came into force since 1995.

 TRIPS specified minimum global standards for protecting and enforcing Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) in all its forms.  While the agreements set out before 1995 did not lay down minimal global standards for patents, TRIPS prescribed this.  Therefore, all members should ensure that their IPR laws meet these minimum global standards pronounced in the TRIPS.  However, TRIPS also allows countries to make their laws with flexibility in their interests.

The IPRs covered under the TRIPS are given below: a) Copyright and related rights (i.e., the rights of performers, producers of sound recordings and broadcasting organizations) b) Trademarks including service marks c) Geographical indications including appellations of origin

d) Industrial designs e) Patents including protection of new varieties of plants. f) Lay-out designs of integrated circuits and g) Undisclosed information including Trade Secrets and Test data

The TRIPS agreement has three key features: a)standards: Under TRIPS, each member country should provide minimum standards of protection to all items of the IPRs. The Articles 2.1 and 9.1 of the TRIPS Agreement rely heavily on the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Paris Convention) and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Berne Convention) for these purposes and hence TRIPS Agreement is also called as the “Berne and Paris-plus Agreement”.

b)Enforcement: TRIPS lays down certain general principles for domestic procedures and remedies for the enforcement of the IPRS in member countries. c)Dispute Settlement: Members are expected to resolve their trade disputes under the TRIPS obligations subject to the WTO dispute settlement procedures. It was during the end of the uruguay round of talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1994 that the TRIPS Agreement was negotiated.

 TRIPS was promoted by the developed nations led by the USA and supported by the European Union, Japan and other developed nations.  TRIPS was opposed by developing nations led by Korea and Brazil and supported by Thailand, India and Caribbean states.  TRIPS enabled the developed countries link international trade with IPRs for the first time globally.  Subsequently, the scope of the TRIPS Agreement was clarified in the Doha round of talks and was stated in the Doha declaration.

 One of the major criticisms against TRIPS was that it will affect the public health programs.  African Governments had to spend huge sums of money for buying drugs to control AIDS as the IPR granted to such as patents worked against public cause such as this in Africa.  TRIPS allowed flexibility in the national laws of developing countries till In the case of least developed countries, this transition period was extended to 2013 and until 2013 for pharmaceutical patents which is also likely to be extended.