INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: INFORMATION
Procedures for notifying and sharing information: contact points
The TRIPS Agreement says °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ members must set up contact points on intellectual property and notify these to the TRIPS Council — in other words the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ’s membership. This allows member governments to contact each other on issues such as trade in counterfeit or pirated goods.
Notification procedures
1.
Introduction
2. Laws and regulations
3.
Beneficiaries/national
treatment
4. Most-favoured nation
5. Contact points
6.
Berne/Rome provisions
7. State
emblems
See also:
>
Transparency toolkit
>
The notifications
> TRIPS Council
> Reviews of
members’ implementing legislation
Notifications under Article 69
TRIPS Article 69 says members agree to cooperate with each other to
eliminate international trade in goods that infringe intellectual
property rights.
In order to achieve this member governments have agreed to set up
contact points, to announce these to other members through the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ, and
to share information. Members have also agreed to encourage their
customs authorities to cooperate and share information with each other,
particularly on counterfeits, which infringe trademarks, and pirated
products, which violate copyright.
(this data is maintained in e-TRIPS)