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   legislation and intends to submit legislation to Congress by mid-1991.

The United States and Bulgaria signed a trade agreement including strong protection for intellectual property rights (April).

Egypt forwarded a new audio-visual law to its Parliament (April), and long-awaited copyright amendments are expected shortly.

Greece is near completion of draft copyright amendments to extend protection to sound recordings and computer software.

Indonesia agreed to improve conditions of market access for motion pictures, take additional steps to curtail copyright piracy, and continue discussion of further market-opening measures. (April) 

 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).

<li>The Federal Republic of Germany increased penalties for infringement of intellectual property rights (January).</li>

<li>Yugoslavia amended its patent law to extend the term of protection to 20 years from filing, among other improvements (March).</li>

<li>The United States signed a trade agreement with Poland which includes strong terms of protection for intellectual property rights (March).</li>

<li>The European Community, Japan, Switzerland, and fourteen LDC's tabled legal texts in the Uruguay Round negotiations on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (April).</li>

<li>The United States signed a trade agreement with Czechoslovakia which includes strong terms of protection for intellectual property rights (April).</li>

<li>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).</li> </ul>