The purpose of this chapter is to survey provisions concerning intellectual property rights (IPRs) in a selection of regional trade agreements (RTAs) and to highlight how these provisions compare with IPR provisions under the multilateral trading system as embodied in the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement). Given the on-going debate across countries concerning some aspects of the implementation of the TRIPS Agreement, it is timely to consider how these issues have been treated in RTAs. In moving beyond the minimum requirements of the TRIPS Agreement, which RTAs address IPRs? Have they tended to simply make reference to the TRIPS Agreement? Do they include provisions that differ from the TRIPS Agreement or go beyond it in terms of protections afforded to holders of IPRs? The study is not intended to be a comprehensive review of the individual legal provisions, but rather an illustrative presentation of the nature of IPR provisions in 15 selected RTAs.