What TRIPS is and what is is not

For industry people, journalists, activists, lawyers, diplomats, national legislators, and students of the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) has awesome proportions. These are magnified by the fact that these groups lack detailed knowledge of either IP as such or international trade law. IP involves a broad spread of academic specialists and practitioners covering heterogeneous complex regimes of patents, copyright, trade marks, design, undisclosed information (trade secrets), and geographical indications. IP, and subsequently TRIPS, is the meeting point of many stakeholders and actors with conflicting interests spread between market aspirations and concepts of public good. In a globalized economy with deep interconnections across sectors, national borders challenged by inchoate technologies, dynamic social stakeholders, and converging technologies, it is fundamental to have a clear and uncluttered understanding of this Agreement. That is because TRIPS impinges on trade in many products of daily life, from pharmaceuticals to entertainment electronics, as well as mitigating and adaptive technologies for climate change and sustainable development. Given its saliency and ubiquity in economic life, TRIPS has often generated misunderstanding and controversy in the public debate. To complicate matters, technical and legal issues at the interface of technology, IP, and trade remain the province of an eclectic band of specialists and on the radar of interest groups with goals on opposite poles.

Utility pole accident countermeasures evaluation program and input processor - user's manual.

Federal Highway Administration, Office of Implementation, McLean, Va.

Laboratory procedures to determine the breakaway behavior of luminaire supports in minisized vehicle collisions. Volume 3. FOIL operation and safety plan.

Federal Highway Administration, Safety Design Division, McLean, Va.

Side impact crash test and evaluation procedures for roadside structures crash tests. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, McLean, Va.

Nápoles hispánico.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Managing red pine for poles in Lower Michigan /

"January, 1958."

Voyage autour du monde, et vers les deux poles, par terre et mer : pensant les années 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1773, 1774, / 1776 /

MTSD 0364.

Sublevación de Nápoles capitaneada por Masanielo, con sus antecedentes y consecuencias hasta el restablecimiento del gobierno español.

Mode of access: Internet.

Universal geography formed into a new and entire system : describing Asia, Africa, Europe, and America ... To which is added, a short view of astronomy, as connected with geography ... /

"Appendix to v.I, in two parts, containing 1. The history of the voyages around the world, and toward the North and South poles, which have been made since the year 1764, by English navigators. 2. A digested and geographical account of the most considerable islands and countries which have been either discovered or explored during those voyages, collected from every writer upon those subjects".

A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world : in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed : Undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver : in three volumes, Vol. I.

Mode of access: Internet.

Alienation Effects : Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-89 /

Jakovljevic considers the concept of theatricality as central to understanding the events that took place in Yugoslavia. He examines the country’s trials, state ceremonies and festivals, army maneuvers, propaganda, and pop culture as “rehearsals and temporary enactments of an ideologically formulated future.”.

The young Muscovite, or, The Poles in Russia /

Translation of: I︠U︡riĭ Miloslavskiĭ, ili, Russkie v 1612 godu.

Protestantism in Poland, a brief study of its history as an encouragement to mission work among the Poles,

Mode of access: Internet.

The young Muscovite, or The Poles in Russia /

Translation of: IU︡︠riǐ Miloslavskiǐ, ili, Russkie v 1612 godu.

Richard E. Byrd, adventurer to the poles.

Mode of access: Internet.