1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:PROTECTION & ENFORCEMENT
The WTO’s Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights(TRIPS),negotiated in the Uruguay Round, introduced intellectual property rules in the miltilateral trading system, for the first time

2. THE AGREEMENT COVERS ISSUES
How basic principles of trading system & international intellectual property agreements to be applied
How to give adequate protection to IPR
How countries should enforce those rights adequately in their own territories
How to settle disputes on Intellectual property & WTO members
Special transitional arrangements during period when the new system is being introduced

3. BASIC PRINCIPLES National treatment Balanced protection
Intellectual property protection should contribute to technical innovation & transfer of energy
MFN

4. TRIPS Agreement Features
STANDARDS
ENFORCEMENT
DISPUTE SETTLEMENT

5. IPRs covered under TRIPS
Copyrights and related rights
Trademarks
Geographical indications
Industrial design
Patents
Trade secrets
Utility models
Traditional knowledge

6. PATENT…….? WHAT CAN BE PATENTED? Process and product.
“Everything under sun that is made by man is a patent”
Is Einstein’s E=mc^2 and Newton’s law of Gravity a patent??
WHAT CAN BE PATENTED?
Process and product.

7. PATENT REQUIREMENTS New/Novel Inventive Step Industrial Applicability
Patentable subject matter

8. COPYRIGHT “Protection of creativity” (Or)
A Statutory Monopoly for a period of years for 27 and renewable for another 27 years

9. EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS
To produce copies/reproductions of work and to sell those copies
To Import or Export the work
To perform/display the work publicly
To sell or assign these rights to others
To transmit/display by radio or video

10. TRADEMARKS
“Protection of good will and reputation”
(or)
“A trademark, trade mark, or trade-mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or services from those of other entities”.

11. SYMBOL
™ (for an unregistered trade mark, that is, a mark used to promote or brand goods)
℠ (for an unregistered service mark, that is, a mark used to promote or brand services)
® (for a registered trademark)

12. REFERENCES WWW.GOOGLE.COM WIKIPEDIA
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13. REGULATORY AFFAIRS
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