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ARTICLE-4: Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment [go to this ARTICLE]
... (d) deriving from international agreements related to the protection
of intellectual property which entered into force prior to the entry
into force of the WTO Agreement, provided that such agreements are
notified to the Council for TRIPS and do not constitute an arbitrary
or unjustifiable discrimination against nationals of other Members. ...
ARTICLE-27: Patentable Subject Matter [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. Subject
to the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3, patents shall be
available for any inventions, whether products or processes, in all
fields of technology, provided that they are new, involve an
inventive step and are capable of industrial application.(5)
Subject to paragraph 4 of Article 65, paragraph 8 of
Article 70 and paragraph 3 of this Article, patents shall
be available and patent rights enjoyable without discrimination as to
the place of invention, the field of technology and whether products
are imported or locally produced. ...
ARTICLE-70: Protection of Existing Subject Matter [go to this ARTICLE]
... 6. Members
shall not be required to apply Article 31, or the requirement in
paragraph 1 of Article 27 that patent rights shall be
enjoyable without discrimination as to the field of technology, to
use without the authorization of the right holder where authorization
for such use was granted by the government before the date this
Agreement became known. ...