Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement – Intellectual Property Chapter

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is a free trade agreement between Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, the United States, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. After 7 years of negotiations, which began in February 2008, an agreement was reached on October 5, 2015, and the text was published in English on November 5, 2015. Among other matters, the TPP seeks to establish a common framework for intellectual property, strengthen labor law and environmental law standards, and establish an arbitration mechanism to solve disputes between States and investors.

The TPP has non self-executing provisions, that is to say, these provisions require that Parties to the treaty enact the necessary local provisions so that the former are enforceable in each country.