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Intellectual Property Law for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students

This LibGuide provides essential resources, case law, journals, and study tools for undergraduate and postgraduate students to explore and deepen their understanding of Intellectual Property Law.

Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights of 1994 (TRIPS Agreement)

Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Trademarks of 1891 (Madrid Agreement)

Madrid Protocol Concerning the Registration of International Trademarks of 1989

Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks of 1957 (Nice Agreement)

The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 1883 (Paris Convention)

Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks of 2006 (Singapore Treaty)

Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of 1896 (Berne Convention)

TRIPS Agreement

Paris Convention

Correa C ‘Implications of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and public health’ Health Economics and Drugs EDM Series No 12, WHO/EDM/PAR/2002.3 (2002)

WIPO Geographical indications- An introduction

WTO, ‘MODULE IV Geographical Indications’

Intellectual Property and Traditional medical knowledge

African model legislation for the protection of the rights of local communities, farmers and breeders, and for the regulation of access to biological resources

Swakopmund Protocol on the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Expressions of Folklore within the Framework of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO), 2010

Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992

The International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV Convention) of 1961

The Arusha Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants of 2015

Correa C Intellectual Property and Competition Law: Exploring Some Issues of Relevance to Developing Countries (2007) 1-26

UNCTAD Examining the interface between the objectives of competition policy and intellectual property (2016) TD/B/C.I/CLP/36 1-17

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