The GATT and the TRIPS Agreement Sample Clauses

The GATT and the TRIPS Agreement. The WTO Agreement entered into force on 1 January 1995, signalling the beginning of a new order of trade agreements and “a new economic order” 16. Within the comprehensive legal instrument that formally established the WTO, is the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (GATT) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS). The TRIPS, contained in Annex I of the GATT, is a comprehensive framework for an international IPR system that harmonises the intellectual property systems in its contracting states and contains obligations for each contracting party along with a timeframe for each party to complete implementation of the TRIPS. It builds upon the existing standards of IP 15 This classical justification is upheld in the TRIPS Agreement in its Preamble. 16 P Van den Bossche, (n 11 above) 76 protection developed by the WIPO and embodied in its various conventions, thus the obligations of the TRIPS must be read together with the relevant WIPO conventions. It adds to the conventions by providing new rules that create an obligation on Members to implement an enforcement system for IP protection, linking this to the dispute settlement system of the WTO. The TRIPS contracting states are the member countries of the WTO, which today include a total of 158 countries in the world.17 From the very onset of the TRIPS Agreement, its Preamble confirms the need for achieving a balance, or more precisely the need to arrive at a series of equilibriums between IP protection and free trade, between highly industrialised and developing nations, and between the private rights of intellectual property owners and cases where the public interest may xxxxx some aspects of the protection of IP18. Finally, it confirms that it is a reflection of the “contract” that IP represents where “in exchange for a reward and incentive to further creativity and inventiveness, IP owners receive a limited (in scope and time), monopoly.”19 The underlying goal of reaching an equilibrium must be viewed in the light of the fact that prior to the Uruguay Round, intellectual property was viewed as an exception to free trade in Article XX (d) of the GATT 194720. IPRs under TRIPS are no longer an exception to free trade but to be recognised as private rights21. As a result of the TRIPS Agreement, IPRs gained an official role whereby the right itself is recognised internationally and governed by its own international framework.
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