Document Type
Book Section
Publication Date
11-2025
ISBN
9780776645469
Abstract
The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) was adopted on 15 April 1994, along with the estab-lishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO). With the WTO’s recent celebration of its thirtieth anniversary, it is high time we explore what the future will hold for this agreement. This chapter begins by revisiting the past to examine whether the TRIPS Agreement would be adopted if it were negotiated today. The chapter then discusses whether WTO members will undertake a major overhaul of this agreement in the future. Taking note of the fast-evolving international norm-setting environment and the lack of breakthroughs in the Doha Development Round of Trade Negotiations in the past decade, this chapter concludes by advancing three recommendations on how the TRIPS Agreement could, and should, be updated if WTO members could not reach a consensus on a major overhaul.
First Page
55
Last Page
78
Num Pages
24
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Rights
Creative Commons Open Access License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Notes
Download the entire book at the University of Ottawa Press website: https://press.uottawa.ca/en/9780776645360/intellectual-property-futures/
Editor
Graham J. Reynolds, Alexandra Mogyoros, & Teshager W. Dagne
Recommended Citation
Peter K. Yu,
TRIPS and Its Futures,
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(Graham J. Reynolds, Alexandra Mogyoros, & Teshager W. Dagne eds., 2025).
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