The Uruguay Round concluded major trade agreements including Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights ( TRIPs), 1995. The TRIPs has provided all types of intellectual property rights as trade related intellectual property rights, which are as such:
* Copyright and related rights
* Trademarks
* Geographical Indications
* Designs
* Patent
* Layout-Designs (Topographies) of Integrated Circuits
* Undisclosed Information, and
* Control of Anti-Competitive Practices in Contractual Licenses.
Copyright, patents, trademarks, etc apply to different types of creation or invention. Thy are also treated differently. Patents, industrial design, integrated circuit designs, geographical indications and trademarks have to be registered in order to receive protection. The registration includes a description of what is being protected, the invention, design, trade name, logo, etc and this description is public information.
Copyright and trade secrets are protected automatically according to specified conditions. They do not have to be registered and therefore there in no need to disclose.
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