The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is an international legal agreement between all the member nations of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It establishes minimum standards for

TRIPS requires member states to provide strong protection for intellectual property rights. For example, under TRIPS:
• Copyright terms must extend at least 50 years, unless based on the

In addition to the baseline intellectual property standards created by the TRIPS agreement, many nations have engaged in bilateral agreements to adopt a higher standard of protection.

TRIPs imposed on the entire world the dominant intellectual property regime in the United States and Europe, as it is today. I believe that the way that intellectual property regime has evolved is not good for the United States and the EU; but even more, I believe it

The obligations under TRIPS apply equally to all member states; however, developing countries were allowed extra time to implement the applicable changes to their national laws, in two tiers

According to WTO 10th Anniversary, Highlights of the first decade, Annual Report 2005 page 142, in the first ten years, 25 complaints have been lodged leading to the panel

• List of parties to the TRIPS Agreement
Related treaties and laws
• Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
• EU Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRED)
• Patent Law Treaty (PLT)