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The American Chamber of Commerce in South China
Comparison of Scope of the Intellectual Property
Sections in the CPTPP, RCEP, CAI and ETA11
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The intellectual property section of RCEP consists of
14 sections, while the intellectual property section of
CPTPP consists of 11 sections. Both of them compre-
hensively cover the general provisions, copyright, trade-
marks, geographical indications, patents, industrial
design, genetic resources, unfair competition, country
names, the implementation of intellectual property
rights and other main areas of intellectual property law.
The scope of RCEP and CPTPP cover virtually all sub-
ject matters of intellectual property in the Civil Code,
Article 123, while the ETA is limited to some specific
aspects of IP, which are less comprehensive than RCEP.
However, it is understandable, as the IP systems of
China and the US are more advanced than those of 10
ASEAN states in RCEP that still need to substantially
improve their IP systems. Therefore, RCEP covers all
subject matters of intellectual property mainly for the 10 � � RCEP� CPTPP?? � � ?? � ?? ?? � � � �
ASEAN states. A transition period of ten or fifteen years
can even be applicable to 7 ASEAN countries, namely
Cambodia, the Lao People?? Democratic Republic, Ma-
laysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam12.
Compared to RCEP, the intellectual property rules in
CPTPP generally represent the development direction
towards higher standards that improve traditional in-
tellectual property protection, specify the protection
standard, expand protection matters, refine protection
rules and provide strict law enforcement procedures and
legal responsibilities. CPTPP?? intellectual property
rules have a higher standard than those of RCEP. First,
CPTPP involves a broader scope of intellectual prop-
erty protection of trademarks. For example, CPTPP
protects subject matters including non-traditional
trademark types such as sound and odor trademarks.
It specifies that geographical indications should re-
spect the rules of pre-existing trademarks, and protect
11 Details see attachment
12 RCEP Chapter 11, Annex 11A
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