Canada’s not completely off the hook, U.S. officials are still concerned about weak protections against pirated and counterfeit goods.
Canada was placed on a U.S. watch list of top piracy and patent rights violators along with China, Russia and India.
Not that Canada is completely in the clear, however: the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is keeping Canada on a lower-level"watch list" over continuing concerns about online piracy and pharmaceuticals patents. It promised what it called"intense bilateral engagement" to address the concerns. That coincided with negotiations on the new Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade deal, including new intellectual-property provisions.
"Once implemented, these commitments will substantially improve the IP environment in Canada, including with respect to areas where there have been long-standing concerns," reads the trade-office report.
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