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Notification procedures
1. Introduction
2. Laws and regulations
3.
Beneficiaries/national
treatment
4. Most-favoured nation
5. Contact points
6.
Berne/Rome provisions
7. State
emblems
See also:
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Transparency toolkit
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The notifications
> TRIPS
Council
> Reviews of
members’ implementing legislation
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The notifications required by the TRIPS Agreement cover:
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members’ intellectual property laws and regulations
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contact points within members’ administrations
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members’ use of specific provisions in the TRIPS Agreement such as
modified criteria on eligibility for protection, and exceptions to the
non-discrimination principle known as “most-favoured-nation treatment”.
These notifications are circulated in the series of documents using code
numbers starting with IP/N/-. Members also share information on their
laws and practices as part of the TRIPS Council’s work, through
structured procedures under “Reviews of
implementing legislation”, reviews of how
geographical indications
provisions are being applied (under TRIPS Article 24.2), and reviews
of the provisions of Article 27.3(b) which deals with patentability or non-patentability of
plant and animal inventions, and the protection of plant varieties.
Members have also agreed that developed countries should notify on:
Details of how this works can be found in a Secretariat paper,
“Timeliness and Completeness of Notifications and Other Information
Flows”, IP/C/W/543. Download:
Word,
pdf
Information on notifications relating to technical cooperation can be
found under Technical Cooperation in the TRIPS area.
Detailed information on the notification procedures can be found in the
Technical Cooperation Handbook on Notification Requirements: Agreement
on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights:
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