IRF

The maximum number of years that the monopoly rights conferred by the grant of a patent may last. See also In Force.

The title submitted by the applicant and published on the front page of a patent document.

The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. TRIPS is an international agreement administered by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that sets down minimum standards for many forms of intellectual property (IP) regulation. It was negotiated at the end of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1994. The TRIPS agreement introduced intellectual property law into the international trading system for the first time and remains the most comprehensive international agreement on intellectual property to date.