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Abstract
This Article examines the need for a multilateral framework to address the trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPs). The authors trace the growing importance of TRIPs from its emergence at the Tokyo Round in 1978 to its present state as a major focus of multilateral negotiations at the Uruguay Round. A detailed discussion of existing GATT provisions and their relevance to intellectual property rights follows. The authors then describe the four major substantive issues related to TRIPs that are before the Negotiating Group: substantive standards of intellectual property protection; procedures for the enforcement of intellectual property protection; dispute settlement procedures; and the relationship between the GATT and other international organizations in the negotiations and in any eventual agreement that may be reached at the Uruguay Round.
Recommended Citation
David Hartridge and Arvind Subramanian,
Intellectual Property Rights: The Issues in GATT,
22 Vanderbilt Law Review
893
(1989)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vjtl/vol22/iss4/3