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  Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, which Uruguay has not yet ratified.

On January 25, the Intellectual Property Rights Division of the Singapore Police raided a raid major software pirate syndicate making arrests and seizing over one million Singapore dollars (600,000 us dollars) worth of DVDs and CDs.

On January 31, Armenia became a party to the Geneva Phonograms Convention.

Egypt's People's Assembly ratified the WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

Russia's amendments to its patent law were finalized. 

February

 On February 1, China implemented changes to the Patent Cooperation Treaty Regulations.

<li>On February 4, Guatemala became party to the WIPO Copyright Treaty.</li>

<li>On February 5, Armenia became a member of the WTO.</li>

<li>On February 7, Lithuania's Ministry of Health issued an order providing protections for pharmaceutical companies' confidential test data, effective March 1, 2003.</li>

<li>On February 25, Republic of Korea became party to the Trademark Law Treaty.</li>

<li>A new Kenyan copyright law was made effective and is being implemented.</li>

<li>Panama put on an intensive IPR workshops focused on helping judges, prosecutors, police and customs officials implement IPR law.</li> </ul>

March

<ul> <li>On March 6, Nicaragua became party to the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. Nicaragua also acceded to the Patent Cooperation Treaty.</li>

<li>On March 18, the Lithuanian President signed into law amendments to the Law on Copyright and Related Rights which were aimed at raising the standards of protection to the levels found in the WIPO internet treaties.</li> </ul> May 1, 2003