ABSTRACT
On December 11, 2001, China became the 143rd member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). After more than 15 years of exhaustive negotiations, China finally joined the international trading body. As with other WTO members, China abides by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellec-tual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). Together with more than two dozen other international agreements China has joined, the TRIPS Agreement lays out the international framework impacting intellectual property developments in China (Yu 2011e: 221–3).
