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- Argentina proposed a new patent law to modernize its existing 1864 regime, including product protection for pharmaceuticals. (October)
- Romania and the United States reached agreement on a trade agreement, including strong protection for intellectual property rights. (November)
- The New Zealand Government announced that it would introduce legislation to eliminate the compulsory licensing provisions of its patent law within the near future. (December)
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- Mexico published its "Industry and Trade Sectoral Plan" outlining the government's program to modernize protection and enforcement of patents, trademarks and trade secrets (January).
- The Federal Republic of Germany increased penalties for infringement of intellectual property rights (January).
- Yugoslavia amended its patent law to extend the term of protection to 20 years from filing, among other improvements (March).
- The United States signed a trade agreement with Poland which includes strong terms of protection for intellectual property rights (March).
- The United States signed a trade agreement with Czechoslovakia which includes strong terms of protection for intellectual property rights (April).
- In Spain, several defendants were found guilty of computer software piracy by a district court judge in the first case to test the 1987 intellectual property law (May).
- Chile clarified its copyright protection for computer software, thus ensuring that it is a literary work (June).
- The People's Republic of China passed a copyright law with protection effective in June, 1991. However, the law does not protect foreign authors' works first published outside of China. (September).
- Malaysia amended its copyright law and acceded to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (October).
- Japan enacted a law protecting trade secrets (October).
