The TRIPS Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis 4th ed

This acclaimed work provides practitioners and academics with a complete set of tools for understanding the trade rules and intellectual property concepts that make up the TRIPS Agreement.

This new edition is updated to reflect dispute-settlement panel reports, the Anti- Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and other developments, including the fate of the Doha Round.

The text is split into three parts discussing and analysing the TRIPS Agreement. Part 1 describes the development of the TRIPS Agreement, Part 2 is an exhaustive commentary on all 79 Articles of the Agreement, and Part 3 reproduces legislation, agreements and decisions that a practitioner might need to understand it.

• Provides a complete overview of the TRIPS Agreement in one comprehensive volume
• Offers a unique insider perspective as the author was involved with the TRIPS Agreement negotiations
• Traces the development of the TRIPS Agreement, explaining the political, commercial and legal forces that have shaped its evolution
• Presents early versions of the TRIPS text to chart the evolution of the final Agreement
• Sets out an annotated version of the Agreement, providing a detailed explanation of each of its 79 Articles
• Demonstrates the effect of the TRIPS Agreement through analysis of recent cases
• Reproduces all related treaties and legislation
• Analyses bilateral and regional agreements based on TRIPS explaining their impact on practitioners working in countries party to them
• Discusses the likely future impact of TRIPS on the IP framework