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D.M. Nachane, « Intellectual Property Rights and the WTO: A Southern Perspective », Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Entwicklungspolitik, ID : 10.4000/sjep.679
1. Introduction 1.1. Forms of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) The concept of intellectual property is far from being a recent one. Even in the times of the Middle Ages, merchants were often granted exclusive rights to inventions via « letters of patent ». In fact, the modern patent system may be traced directly back to a statute passed in Venice in 1474. The most common forms of IPRs, currently in vogue, are the following: patents; copyrights; trademarks; trade secrets and plant breeders r...