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ARTICLE · 13 OCTOBER 2015

TPP IP Chapter Summary Released – Are More IP Changes Coming?

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The TPP, which must be ratified by all 12 member countries to come into effect, has the potential for wide-spread consequences across Canadian industry.

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R. Scott MacKendrick
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Melanie Szweras
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On Monday October 5, 2015, the Canadian Federal government announced that Canada had concluded negotiations and become one of the founding members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim countries, including the United States of America, Japan, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and Peru.

The TPP, which must be ratified by all 12 member countries to come into effect, has the potential for wide-spread consequences across Canadian industry. While text of the TPP has yet to be published, the government released a technical summary on intellectual property which describes some of the proposed consequences for intellectual property laws in Canada and the TPP member countries, including:

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