INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS

_____ is the United Nations agency that serves the world’s innovators and creators, ensuring that their ideas travel safely to the market and improve lives everywhere

It provides services that enable creators, innovators and entrepreneurs to protect and promote their intellectual property (IP) across borders and acting as a forum for addressing cutting-edge IP issues

World Intellectual Property Organization

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WTO agreement setting minimum standards for intellectual property protection and enforcement, including copyright, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets

1994 TRIPS Agreement

What is the complete name of the TRIPS Agreement

Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

The TRIPS Agreement is (1)_____ of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, signed in (2)_____ on 15 April 1994

(1) Annex 1C
(2) Marrakesh, Morocco

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Deals with the protection of works and the rights of their authors

It provides creators such as authors, musicians, poets, painters etc. with the means to control how their works are used, by whom, and on what terms

It is based on three (3) basic principles and contains a series of provisions determining the minimum protection to be granted, as well as special provisions available to developing countries that want to make use of them

1886 Berne Convention

full: Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

What are the 3 basic principles of the 1886 Berne Convention (NAI)

(1) National Treatment

• Works originating in one contracting state must receive the same protection in every other member state that those states grant to the works of their own citizens

(2) Automatic Protection

• Protection must not require any formal compliance, such as copyright registration, filing, or displaying a copyright symbol

(3) Independence of Protection

• The enjoyment and exercise of these rights are independent of whether the work is protected in its country of origin. Each country applies its own domestic laws and maximum duration limits

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A special agreement under the Berne Convention which deals with the protection of works and the rights of their authors in the digital environment

In addition to the rights recognized by the Berne Convention, they are granted certain economic rights

The Treaty also deals with two (2) subject matters to be protected by copyright:

• (i) computer programs, whatever the mode or form of their expression; and

• (ii) compilations of data or other material ("databases")

1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT)

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The WIPO-administered _____ makes the production and international transfer of specially-adapted books for people with blindness or visual impairments easier

It does this by establishing a set of limitations and exceptions to traditional copyright law

2013 Marrakesh Treaty

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Applies to industrial property in the widest sense, including patents, trademarks, industrial designs, utility models, service marks, trade names, geographical indications and the repression of unfair competition

This international agreement was the first major step taken to help creators ensure that their intellectual works were protected in other countries

1883 Paris Convention

full: 1883 Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property

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The (1)_____ is governed by the (2)_____, concluded in 1891, and the Protocol relating to that Agreement, concluded in 1989

The system makes it possible to protect a mark in a large number of countries by obtaining an international registration that has effect in each of the designated Contracting Parties

(1) Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks
(2) Madrid Agreement

aka: Madrid Protocol

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(1)_____ makes it possible to seek patent protection for an invention simultaneously in each of a large number of countries by filing an "international" patent application

Such an application may be filed by anyone who is a national or resident of a Contracting State

It may generally be filed with the:

• national patent office of the Contracting State of which the applicant is a national or resident or,

• at the applicant's option, with the (2)_____

(1) Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
(2) International Bureau of WIPO in Geneva

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(1)_____ governs the international registration of industrial designs

First adopted in 1925, the Agreement effectively establishes an international system – the (2)_____ – that allows industrial designs to be protected in multiple countries or regions with minimal formalities

(1) Hague Agreement
(2) Hague System

full: Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs

ASEAN has adopted the _____ as its strategic roadmap to strengthen intellectual property (IP) systems and harness IP as a key enabler of innovation, enterprise, and inclusive growth in the region

ASEAN Intellectual Property Rights Action Plan 2026–2030 (AIPRAP 2026- 2030)

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The (1)_____ establishes a classification of goods and services for the purposes of registering trademarks and service marks (the (2)_____)

The trademark offices of Contracting States must indicate, in official documents and publications in connection with each registration, the numbers of the classes of the Classification to which the goods or services for which the mark is registered belong

(1) Nice Agreement
(2) Nice Classification

full: Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks

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The (1)_____, established by the (2)_____ (1968), is an international classification used for the purposes of the registration of industrial designs

(1) Locarno Classification
(2) Locarno Agreement

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The (1)_____, established by the (2)_____ (1971), provides for a hierarchical system of language independent symbols for the classification of patents and utility models according to the different areas of technology to which they pertain

(1) International Patent Classification (IPC)
(2) Strasbourg Agreement

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The _____ was adopted on June 24, 2012, and entered into force on April 28, 2020

It deals with the intellectual property rights of performers in audiovisual performances

Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances

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The _____ deals with the rights of two kinds of beneficiaries, particularly in the digital environment:

(i) performers (actors, singers, musicians, etc.); and

(ii) producers of phonograms (persons or legal entities that take the initiative and have the responsibility for the fixation of sounds)

WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty

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The _____ secures protection in:

• performances for performers, in

• phonograms for producers of phonograms and in

• broadcasts for broadcasting organizations

WIPO is responsible for the administration of the convention jointly with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Rome Convention

full: Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations

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Adopted in 1977, the _____ concerns a specific topic in the international patent process: microorganisms

All states party to the Treaty are obliged to recognize microorganisms deposited as a part of the patent procedure, irrespective of where the depository authority is located

In practice this means that the requirement to submit microorganisms to each and every national authority in which patent protection is sought no longer exists

Budapest Treaty

full: Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure

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The _____, the constituent instrument of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), was signed at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, entered into force in 1970 and was amended in 1979

WIPO is an intergovernmental organization which in 1974 became one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations system

The origins of WIPO go back to 1883 and 1886 when the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works provided for the establishment of an "International Bureau". The two bureaus were united in 1893 and, in 1970, were replaced by the World Intellectual Property Organization, by virtue of the _____

WIPO Convention

full: Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization