Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of boxes
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- I Introduction to the TRIPS Agreement
- II Copyright and related rights
- III Trademarks
- IV Geographical indications
- V Patents
- VI Industrial designs and layout-designs of integrated circuits
- VII Undisclosed information, unfair competition and anti-competitive practices
- VIII Enforcement
- IX Dispute prevention and settlement
- X TRIPS and public health
- XI Current TRIPS issues
- Appendix 1 Guide to transparency under TRIPS
- Appendix 2 Guide to TRIPS documents
- Annexes
- Index
VII - Undisclosed information, unfair competition and anti-competitive practices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 November 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of boxes
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- I Introduction to the TRIPS Agreement
- II Copyright and related rights
- III Trademarks
- IV Geographical indications
- V Patents
- VI Industrial designs and layout-designs of integrated circuits
- VII Undisclosed information, unfair competition and anti-competitive practices
- VIII Enforcement
- IX Dispute prevention and settlement
- X TRIPS and public health
- XI Current TRIPS issues
- Appendix 1 Guide to transparency under TRIPS
- Appendix 2 Guide to TRIPS documents
- Annexes
- Index
Summary
This chapter deals with the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement that set out standards for protection of undisclosed information, including test data (Article 39 of Section 7 in Part II of the Agreement) and measures for the control of anti-competitive practices in licences (Article 40 of Part II of the TRIPS Agreement). It also deals with the suppression of unfair competition, a matter which is specifically referred to in Articles 22 (relating to protection of geographical indications) and 39 (relating to protection of undisclosed information), and also arises through the reference in Article 2 of the TRIPS Agreement to the Paris Convention: Article 10bis of that convention sets out general standards for the suppression of unfair competition.
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- A Handbook on the WTO TRIPS Agreement , pp. 136 - 145Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020