|Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
Rights| WTO members (where the TRIPS agreement applies) Parties
to the Agreement where also the membership of the European Union
applies |Type||Annex to the Agreement establishing the World
Trade Organization| |Effective||1 January 1996| |Parties||158
(All WTO members)| |Languages||English, French and Spanish|
|Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
Rights at Wikisource| The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of
Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is an international
agreement administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO)
that sets down minimum standards for many forms of intellectual
property (IP) regulation as applied to nationals of other WTO
Members. It was negotiated at the end of the Uruguay Round of
the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1994. The
TRIPS agreement introduced intellectual property law into the
international trading system for the first time and remains the
most comprehensive internationa