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Ambassador Eui-yong Chung (Korea, Republic of)
C.iii The purpose of the notification and registration system
95. The representative of Argentina said that the interpretation given by Switzerland of certain rules for certain categories of intellectual property in the TRIPS Agreement was unacceptable. She reiterated her question about why Article 34 contained a specific provision on the reversal of the burden of proof. She pointed out that, if there was an implicit understanding as suggested by Switzerland that the judicial authorities should be empowered to order that the defendant prove his claim, this had been made explicit for Article 34 and had not been introduced for other intellectual property rights.
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