The Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights consists of seven parts (including 73 clauses). Except that the implementation of intellectual property rights is separately explained in Section III, other main contents are as follows:
I general principles and basic principles
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Members shall implement the provisions of the Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights and may determine appropriate methods for implementing the Agreement in their respective legal systems and practices; As long as it does not violate the provisions of the Agreement, members can also implement broader protection in their laws than that required by the Agreement, but this is not an obligation.
Members' implementation of the provisions of the Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights shall not prejudice their obligations under the Paris Convention, the Berne Convention, the Rome Convention and the Convention on Intellectual Property Rights of Integrated Circuits.
The Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights also stipulates that members shall abide by the following basic principles:
(A) the principle of national treatment
(2) The most-favored-nation treatment principle
(3) The principle of exhaustion of rights.
(4) Other principles
Two. Standards on the effectiveness, scope and use of intellectual property rights
Articles 9 to 40 of the Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights stipulate the effectiveness, scope and use standards of seven categories of intellectual property rights.
(1) Copyright and related rights
(2) Trademarks
(3) Industrial design
V) Patents
(VI) Layout design of integrated circuits (topology diagram)
(7) Protecting undisclosed information
(eight) the control of the behavior of restricting competition in the licensing contract.
Three. Acquisition and maintenance of intellectual property rights and related procedures
Four. Prevention and settlement of disputes
Verb (abbreviation of verb) transitional arrangement
Other clauses of intransitive verbs