Overview of Legal Disciplines. The TRIPS Agreement provides most-favored-nation treatment for protection of intellectual property in Article 4, stating that “with regard to the protection of intellectual property, any advantage, favour, privilege or immunity granted by a Member to the nationals of any other country shall be accorded immediately and unconditionally to the nationals of all other Members,” and “protection” shall include matters affecting the availability, acquisition, scope, maintenance and enforcement of intellectual property rights as well as those matters affecting the use of intellectual 767 761 Part III: FTA/EPA and IIA property rights specifically addressed in this Agreement (see Footnote of Article 3 of the TRIPS Agreement). There are no provisions in the TRIPS Agreement which correspond to the provisions of Article XXIV of GATT or of Article V of GATS. Therefore, unlike tariffs which could only be eliminated within a specific area, intellectual property rights, within the scope stipulated by Article 4 of the TRIPS Agreement, need to be standardized with WTO members other than the EPA/FTA counterparty countries due to the most-favored-nation treatment.
Overview of Legal Disciplines. The TRIPS Agreement provides most-favored-nation treatment for protection of intellectual property in Article 4, stating that “with regard to the protection of intellectual property, any advantage, favour, privilege or immunity granted by a Member to the nationals of any other country shall be accorded immediately and unconditionally to the nationals of all other Members,” and “protection” shall include matters affecting the availability, acquisition, scope, maintenance and enforcement of intellectual property rights as well as those matters affecting the use of intellectual property rights specifically addressed in this Agreement (see Footnote of Article 3 of the TRIPS Agreement). There are no provisions in the TRIPS Agreement which correspond to the provisions of Article XXIV of GATT or of Article V of GATS. Therefore, unlike tariffs which could only be eliminated within a specific area, intellectual property rights, within the scope stipulated by Article 4 of the TRIPS Agreement, need to be standardized with WTO members other than the EPA/FTA counterparty countries due to the most-favored-nation treatment.
Overview of Legal Disciplines. The features of the chapters regarding intellectual property in the major EPAs entered into by Japan may be classified into the following three groups.
Overview of Legal Disciplines. 885 The TRIPS Agreement provides most-favored-nation treatment for protection of intellectual property in Article 4, stating that “with regard to the protection of intellectual property, any advantage, favour, privilege or immunity granted by a Member to the nationals of any other country shall be accorded immediately and unconditionally to the nationals of all other Members,” and
