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  Argentina proposed a new patent law to modernize its existing 1864 regime, including product protection for pharmaceuticals. (October)

Romania and the United States reached agreement on a trade agreement, including strong protection for intellectual property rights. (November)

The New Zealand Government announced that it would introduce legislation to eliminate the compulsory licensing provisions of its patent law within the near future. (December) 

 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).

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

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

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

<li>Chile clarified its copyright protection for computer software, thus ensuring that it is a literary work (June).</li>

<li>The People's Republic of China passed a copyright law with protection effective in June, 1991. However, the law does not protect foreign authors' works first published outside of China. (September).</li>

<li>Malaysia amended its copyright law and acceded to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (October).</li>

<li>Japan enacted a law protecting trade secrets (October).</li> </ul>