43As regards, second, the question whether individuals are entitled to rely directly on the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement and the WPPT, it must be observed that, according to the case-law of the Court of Justice, it is not sufficient that they are part of the legal order of the Union. Those provisions must also appear, as regards their content, to be unconditional and sufficiently precise and their nature and broad logic must not preclude their being so relied on (see, to that effect, Demirel, paragraph 14; Case C-162/96 Racke [1998] ECR I-3655, paragraph 31, and Case C-344/04 IATA and ELFAA [2006] ECR I-403, paragraph 39).
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