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TRIPS
The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights 1994: the international agreement on intellectual property rights that arose from the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (see World Trade Organization). It is designed to reduce distortions and impediments to international trade while taking account of the need to promote effective protection of intellectual property rights. It also aims to ensure that measures to enforce these rights do not themselves become barriers to legitimate trade. TRIPS sets out how participating nations will protect intellectual property rights: for copyright they should comply with some provisions of the Berne Convention; computer programs and databases will also be protected by copyright. Trade marks and patents should be protected in accordance with the Paris Convention for the Protection of Intellectual Property (1971), with additional protection for designs and the layout of integrated circuits. Less-developed countries were given until 2013 for compliance (January 2016 for pharmaceutical patents), with a subsequent extension to 2021. |