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  protection but still lacks regulations.

Taiwan and the U.S. signed a Memorandum of Understanding on IPR issues.

Indonesia agreed to provide improved market access for U.S. motion pictures.

Japan's law providing for registration and protection of service marks took effect.

The United States and China establish bilateral copyright relations.

The Commission of Cartagena (the Andean Pact) passed decision 313, which replaced Decision 85 covering industrial property protection and provided for certain improvements in patent protection.

Taiwan passed a Fair Trade Law that provides some protection for trade secrets.

<li>India committed to the liberalizing of market access for motion pictures effective April 1, 1992.</li>

<li>India announced that it will accord national treatment to trademarks owned by foreign proprietors.</li>

<li>Thailand's National Legislative Assembly enacted amendments to the patent law that will extend product patent protection to 20 years from filing. However, the law does not provide protection for existing patented products that have not yet been marketed in Thailand, and contains extremely broad compulsory licensing provisions.</li>

<li>The United States and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding committing China to improve protection for U.S. intellectual property, including providing strong protection for U.S. inventions and copyrighted works, computer software and sound recordings, and trade secrets.</li>

<li>Japan amended its copyright law: to extend the protection of sound recordings to 50 years; to protect foreign sound recordings created between 1968 and 1978; and to extend to foreign producers the right to authorize and prohibit the rental of their sound recordings from one year from the date of release.</li> </ul>

1991

<ul style="list-style-type:circle;list-style-image:none;"> <li>Paraguay joined the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.</li>

<li>Romania and the United States reached agreement on a trade accord that includes strong protection for intellectual property rights.</li> </ul>