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ARTICLE-4: Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) deriving from international agreements on judicial assistance or
law enforcement of a general nature and not particularly confined to
the protection of intellectual property; ...
... 5. It is
understood that this Part does not create any obligation to put in
place a judicial system for the enforcement of intellectual property
rights distinct from that for the enforcement of law in general, nor
does it affect the capacity of Members to enforce their law in
general. Nothing in this Part creates any obligation with respect to
the distribution of resources as between enforcement of intellectual
property rights and the enforcement of law in general. ...
... 5. It is
understood that this Part does not create any obligation to put in
place a judicial system for the enforcement of intellectual property
rights distinct from that for the enforcement of law in general, nor
does it affect the capacity of Members to enforce their law in
general. Nothing in this Part creates any obligation with respect to
the distribution of resources as between enforcement of intellectual
property rights and the enforcement of law in general. ...
... 5. It is
understood that this Part does not create any obligation to put in
place a judicial system for the enforcement of intellectual property
rights distinct from that for the enforcement of law in general, nor
does it affect the capacity of Members to enforce their law in
general. Nothing in this Part creates any obligation with respect to
the distribution of resources as between enforcement of intellectual
property rights and the enforcement of law in general. ...
... 4. Procedures
concerning the acquisition or maintenance of intellectual property
rights and, where a Member's law provides for such procedures,
administrative revocation and inter partes procedures
such as opposition, revocation and cancellation, shall be governed by
the general principles set out in paragraphs 2 and 3 of
Article 41. ...
ARTICLE-63: Transparency [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. Laws
and regulations, and final judicial decisions and administrative
rulings of general application, made effective by a Member pertaining
to the subject matter of this Agreement (the availability, scope,
acquisition, enforcement and prevention of the abuse of intellectual
property rights) shall be published, or where such publication is not
practicable made publicly available, in a national language, in such
a manner as to enable governments and right holders to become
acquainted with them. Agreements concerning the subject matter of
this Agreement which are in force between the government or a
governmental agency of a Member and the government or a governmental
agency of another Member shall also be published. ...
ARTICLE-65: Transitional Arrangements [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. Subject
to the provisions of paragraphs 2, 3 and 4, no Member shall be
obliged to apply the provisions of this Agreement before the expiry
of a general period of one year following the date of entry into
force of the WTO Agreement. ...
... 4. To the
extent that a developing country Member is obliged by this Agreement
to extend product patent protection to areas of technology not so
protectable in its territory on the general date of application of
this Agreement for that Member, as defined in paragraph 2, it
may delay the application of the provisions on product patents of
Section 5 of Part II to such areas of technology for an
additional period of five years. ...