Government Tables Five Intellectual Property Treaties

On January 27, 2014, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, David Anderson tabled five previously concluded intellectual property treaties in the House of Commons including the:

• Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (the Madrid Protocol);
• Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks (the Singapore Treaty);
• Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (the Nice Agreement);
• Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs; and
• Patent Law Treaty.

Tabling the treaties in the House of Commons is the first procedural step towards their implementation into domestic Canadian law.