The TRIPS Regime of Patent Rights

Description

"The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) to a large extent incorporates and/or supersedes all previous international conventions on intellectual property rights. It provides, therefore, for a general and mandatory framework worldwide for the protection and enforcement of those rights. For this reason, the TRIPS Agreement has a direct impact on the daily life of corporations, governments and consumers." "This book with the authoritative stamp of an experienced international functionary in the field - formerly with the WTO and currently with the Secretariat of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) - contains a very practical explanation of the meaning of the patent-related TRIPS provisions, of how they should be reflected in national law and how courts are expected to enforce them." "The TRIPS Regime of Patent Rights is a crucially important resource for lawyers interested in compliance and government officials charged with the implementation of TRIPS obligations."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Patents have the primary function of serving as metering devices for society to measure an invention's value, thus allowing patentees to stipulate competitive prices for inventions and, consequently, on the products and services that embody them.

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