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The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is an international legal agreement between members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and was enacted in 1995 (https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/intel2_e.htm). It covers all areas of intellectual property from copyright, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, to patents. It sets the standards for protection of these property rights, identifies mechanisms of enforcement, and submits disputes to the WTO’s dispute settlement procedures. Adoption of the TRIPS agreement during the Uruguay Development Round of trade negotiations imposed the intellectual property rights regime developed in the United States on the rest of the world.
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ten Have, H., Patrão Neves, M. (2021). TRIPS. In: Dictionary of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54161-3_25
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