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Editorial |
Locarno in the limelight
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International IP treaties and conventions cover those that are high-profile, politically sensitive documents to those that scarcely register on the consciousness of the average practitioner. The epitome of the former is TRIPs—the Agreement on Trade-Related IP Rights—which is rarely off the IP agenda. At the other end of the scale can be found such rare creatures as the Stresa Convention of 1953 on the use of names and designations of origins of