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22 Legal Issues of Eur. Integration [i] (1995)

handle is hein.kluwer/liei0022 and id is 1 raw text is: TABLE OF CONTENTS THE PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: THE IMPACT OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT OF THE URUGUAY ROUND OF MULTILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS By Matthew O'Regan I. Introduction .................................................................................................. 1 II. Background to the TRIPS Negotiations and Agreement .......................... 3 A. The Rationale for Intellectual Property Protection .............................. 4 B. Existing International Protection for Intellectual Property ................. 6 C. Why was the Existing 'International Intellectual Property Order' not Considered to be Sufficient? ............................................... 8 1. Inadequate Protection, particularly in Developing Countries ...... 8 2. Problem s with W IPO ..................................................................... 13 D. The Resulting Threat to the International Trading System .............. 14 E. Examples of International Disputes Concerning Intellectual Property ................................................................................................. 15 1. Action by the United States ......................................................... 16 a. Action pursuant to Section 301 of the United States Tariff and Trade Act 1984 ....................................................... 16 b. Action against developing countries through the withdrawal of preferential trading arrangements ...................... 18 c. Action pursuant to Section 337 of the United States Tariff A ct 1937 ......................................................................... 19 d. 'New Reciprocity' - the US Semi-Conductor Chip Protection Act 1984 .................................................................. 20 2. Action by the European Community ............................................ 20 a. Akzo - exclusion from the United States of certain aram id fibres .............................................................................. 20 b. IFPI - unauthorised sound recordings in Indonesia ............... 21 c. SKF - deprivation of patent protection by Jordan for a new polymorphous substance ................................................... 22 d. Withdrawal of GSP from South Korea ................................... 22 III. Provisions of the Uruguay Round TRIPS Agreement ............................ 22 A. Part I - General Provisions and Basic Principles ............................ 23 B. Part II - Standards Concerning the Availability, Scope and Use of Intellectual Property Rights ................................................... 28 1. Copyright and related rights .......................................................... 28 Copyright © 2007 by Kluwer Law International. All rights reserved. No claim asserted to original government works.

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