Protection of Intellectual Property under TRIPS :

The TRIPS Agreement provides for protection of various kinds of intellectual property rights to ensure that adequate standards of protection exist in all member countries. The starting point is the obligations of the main international agreement of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that already existed before the WTO was created; namely, the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (patents, industrial designs, etc.) and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (copyright). However, some areas were not covered by these conventions while in some cases, the standards of protection prescribed were thought inadequate. So the TRIPS agreement adds a significant number of new or higher standards for the protection of intellectual property rights. Part II of the Agreement addresses, in its various sections, the different kinds of IPR and establishes standards for each category.