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... Desiring
to reduce distortions and impediments to international trade, and
taking into account the need to promote effective and adequate
protection of intellectual property rights, and to ensure that
measures and procedures to enforce intellectual property rights do
not themselves become barriers to legitimate trade; ...
ARTICLE-7: Objectives [go to this ARTICLE]
... The
protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights should
contribute to the promotion of technological innovation and to the
transfer and dissemination of technology, to the mutual advantage of
producers and users of technological knowledge and in a manner
conducive to social and economic welfare, and to a balance of rights
and obligations. ...
ARTICLE-8: Principles [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. Members
may, in formulating or amending their laws and regulations, adopt
measures necessary to protect public health and nutrition, and to
promote the public interest in sectors of vital importance to their
socio-economic and technological development, provided that such
measures are consistent with the provisions of this Agreement.
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ARTICLE-16: Rights Conferred [go to this ARTICLE]
... 2. Article
6bis of the Paris Convention (1967) shall apply, mutatis
mutandis, to services. In determining whether a trademark is
well-known, Members shall take account of the knowledge of the
trademark in the relevant sector of the public, including knowledge
in the Member concerned which has been obtained as a result of the
promotion of the trademark. ...
ARTICLE-66: Least-Developed Country Members [go to this ARTICLE]
... 2. Developed
country Members shall provide incentives to enterprises and
institutions in their territories for the purpose of promoting and
encouraging technology transfer to least-developed country Members
in order to enable them to create a sound and viable technological
base. ...
... Members
agree to cooperate with each other with a view to eliminating
international trade in goods infringing intellectual property rights.
For this purpose, they shall establish and notify contact points in
their administrations and be ready to exchange information on trade
in infringing goods. They shall, in particular, promote the exchange
of information and cooperation between customs authorities with
regard to trade in counterfeit trademark goods and pirated copyright
goods.
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