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 Armenia became party to the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty on March 6, 2005.

Brazil's National Council to Combat Piracy and Intellectual Property Crimes adopted a National Action Plan on March 17, 2005. The Plan has been posted on the website of the Brazilian Ministry of Justice to facilitate monitoring of the Plan's implementation. The Plan was adopted through a consensus process that included Brazilian representatives of the interested copyright and trademark sectors.

In Taiwan on March 18, 2005, the Taipei City Police with cooperation from industry raided a pirate CD-R lab seizing 93 optical disk burners and arresting three people.

Macedonia became party to the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty on March 20, 2005.

On March 23, 2005 India's parliament completed its action to make permanent the change to India's patent law, which had been introduced by temporary ordinance in December 2004. The Indian President signed the patent amendment bill on April 5, 2005.

April In April 2005, Vice Premier Wu Yi announced that the special IPR protection campaign originally scheduled to end in September would be extended to the end of the year. Wu Yi stated that the next stage of the nation-wide campaign would focus on the infringement of food and pharmaceutical trademarks, as well as well-known trademark infringements, and would target street vendors of illegal publications, audio-visual products and software. Wu Yi also set a goal of eliminating all counterfeit office software usage in government offices above the prefectural and municipal levels.

In April 2005, the Egyptian Government issued the third and last chapter of the executive (implementing) regulations of Egypt's new IPR law. This chapter of the IPR law governs copyright protection and was issued back in 2002.

In April 2005, Egypt joined the WIPO Nice Agreement Concerning The International Classification Of Goods And Services For The Purpose Of Registration Of Marks.

In April 2005, Kuwait's Ministry of Information participated in raids against 14 locations that the copyright industry had identified as being involved in pirate activities and found 11 of them to be in violation of Kuwaiti law. The pirated goods were seized and the proprietors have been referred to the public prosecutor's office for legal action.

Comoros became party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) on April 3, 2005.

In April 2005, in Brazil, the Sao Paulo Anti-piracy police unit (DEIC), supported by APDIF do Brazil, raided an Industrial CD plant named DIGIMATIC Oficina Replicadora Ltda, in the city of Santana do Parnaiba, 60 kilometers from Sao Paulo. The plant had one active line. Arrested at the plant was Mohd Hasan Tawfic Mohd, a Lebanese national. Two others were held for