Common use of Negotiating history Clause in Contracts

Negotiating history. Industrialized countries with established rules for the control of intellectual property-related anticompetitive practices were not interested in establishing such rules in the TRIPS context. Instead they focused on the formulation of adequate standards of intellectual property protection. Thus, it was the developing coun- tries, once it became clear that TRIPS negotiations would extend beyond matters of counterfeiting and piracy, who insisted on including the issue of anticompetitive practices in the Agreement.9 In part they were of the opinion that restrictive trade practices were the only trade-related aspects of intellectual property protection,10 6 Havana Charter for an International Trade Organization, United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment, held at Havana, Cuba, Nov. 21, 1947 to Mar. 24, 1948, Final Act and Related Documents (March 1948), at Chapter V, Restrictive Business Practices, Article 46. See ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇