Click here to return to homepage
 
home > documents > legal texts > trips

175pxls.gif (835 bytes)
Search for and download WTO documents

URUGUAY ROUND AGREEMENT: TRIPS
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

The TRIPS Agreement is Annex 1C of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, signed in Marrakesh, Morocco on 15 April 1994.

175pxls.gif (835 bytes)
The texts reproduced in this section do not have the legal standing of the original documents which are entrusted and kept at the WTO Secretariat in Geneva.

> Go to a basic explanation of the agreements ...
>
...or a more technical one
>
List of Abbreviations


PREAMBLE to the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

 
PART I General Provisions and Basic Principles

 
PART II
Standards Concerning the Availability, Scope and Use of Intellectual Property Rights

1. Copyright and Related Rights
2. Trademarks
3. Geographical Indications
4. Industrial Designs
5. Patents
6. Layout-Designs (Topographies) of Integrated Circuits
7. Protection of Undisclosed Information
8. Control of Anti-Competitive Practices in Contractual Licences
 

PART III Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights

1. General Obligations
2. Civil and Administrative Procedures and Remedies
3. Provisional Measures
4. Special Requirements Related to Border Measures
5. Criminal Procedures

  
PART IV
Acquisition and Maintenance of Intellectual Property Rights and Related Inter-Partes Procedures

 
PART V
Dispute Prevention and Settlement

 
PART VI
Transitional Arrangements

 
PART VII
Institutional Arrangements; Final Provisions

175pxls.gif (835 bytes)
Read a summary of the TRIPS Agreement

Download full text in:
Word format
(31 pages; 150KB)
pdf format
(33 pages; 194KB)

 

contact us : World Trade Organization, rue de Lausanne 154, CH-1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland