TRIPS ‘originates’ from Morocco.
Kassor ’18 [Alphonso; 2018; Mitchell Hamline School of Law; Vol. 9, Is. 1, “The World Trade Organizations' Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement: The Compelling Challenges for Developing and Less Developed Member Countries-Implementation and Enforcement,” https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1079&context=cybaris]
Against this backdrop, GATT contracting parties’ multilateral trade meeting, known as the Uruguay Round negotiations in Uruguay, TRIPS was put on the table. Finally, “the TRIPS agreement was adopted in Marrakesh, Morocco in April, 1994.”3 Articles 7 and 8 of the agreement were adopted with minimal modifications from proposals submitted by developing and less developed countries.