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Article: Does Canada Deserve to be on the USTR's Intellectual Property Watch List?(United States Trade Representative)
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- November 3, 2005
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Published in The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, June 2005.
Each year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issues a report identifying foreign countries that, in its view, deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights (IPR). The USTR has set up three lists, in decreasing order of "severity": (1) Priority Foreign Countries, (2) Priority Watch List, and (3) Watch List. A total of 52 countries appear on the combined lists.
Canada is one of the countries included on the Watch List contained in the USTR's 2005 report, issued April 29, 2005. Canada is, in fact, a signatory to the major intellectual property ...