9 More extensive protection on patent rights than what the TRIPs Agreement has provided is oftenfound in many bilateral or multilateral intellectual property treaties under the WTO system. Thephenomena is called as “TRIPs Plus”. What principle admitted by the TRIPs Agreement is theauthority to support and justify “TRIPs Plus”?
(A) The principle of national treatment
(B) The principle of minimum standards
(C) The principle of the most-favoured-national treatment
(D) The principle of technological “non-discrimination”