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GATT and Intellectual Property RightsGATT and Intellectual Property Rights
Presented by: Manohar Prasad,Specialization: IB+IT,
Roll No.- 1999/ 01030003
Introduction to GATT● The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT)● Signed in 1947● A multilateral agreement regulating trade
among about 150 countries. ● Aim—to reduce national trade barriers and to
stop the competitive trade policies that had so hobbled the global economy prior to World War . Ⅱ
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The purpose of GATT● Reduction of barriers to international
trade:● Tariff barriers ● Quantitative restrictions● Subsidies on trade through a series of
agreements
● on a reciprocal and mutually advantageous basis.
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GATT→WTOGATT→WTO
● By the 1980s the system had a thorough overhaul. This led to the Uruguay Round and ultimately to the WTO.
● In Marrakesh Agreement (1 January 1995), the GATT was displaced by the newly created World Trade Organization (WTO).
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The development of GATT
GATT
International agreement
international organizations
GATT1997 WTO
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GATT’s function and purpose now
● Three major areas of concern in international trade :
1.Goods2.Services, and 3.Intellectual property rights
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Why are intellectual Why are intellectual property rights property rights considered to be a trade considered to be a trade issue?issue?● Most of the value of new medicines and other
high technology products lies in the amount of invention, innovation, research, design and testing involved.
● Films, music recordings, books, computer software and on-line services are bought and sold because of the information and creativity they contain, not usually because of the plastic, metal or paper used to make them.
● Many products that used to be traded as low-technology goods or commodities now contain a higher proportion of invention and design in their value.
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The importance of The importance of IPIP● Ideas and knowledge
● Invention, innovation, research, design and testing
● Creators
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Intellectual property Intellectual property rights rights ● Intellectual property rights are the rights
given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time.
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Types of Intellectual Types of Intellectual Property RightsProperty Rights
Intellectual Property Rights
Copyright and rights related to copyright
Industrial property
The rights of authors of literary and artistic works
rights of performers, producers of phonograms and
broadcasting organizations
Trademarks, including service marks
Geographical indications
Industrial designs
Patents
Layout-designs (topographies) of integrated circuits
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