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SECTION L
TRANSPARENCY

Article 11.77: Transparency

1. Each Party shall provide that final judicial decisions and
administrative rulings of general application that pertain to the
availability, scope, acquisition, enforcement, and prevention of
the abuse of intellectual property rights shall be published, or
where such publication is not practicable, made publicly available,
in at least a national language of that Party in such a manner as
to enable the other Parties and right holders to become
acquainted with them. Each Party shall endeavour to provide that
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such final judicial decisions be published online, where feasible.

2. Each Party shall take appropriate measures, to the extent
possible under its laws and regulations, to publish or make
available to the public, information on applications and
registrations of intellectual property rights, and where applicable,
legal status information thereof, such as registration and
expiration dates.

SECTION M
TRANSITION PERIODS AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

Article 11.78: Transitional Periods for Least Developed Country
Parties under the TRIPS Agreement

Nothing in this Chapter shall derogate from the rights of any Party to
avail itself of any applicable transitional period under the TRIPS
Agreement that has been or may be agreed in the WTO, either before,
on, or after the date of entry into force of this Agreement.

Article 11.79: Party-Specific Transition Periods

1. Noting each Party’s different stage of development, and without
prejudice to Article 11.78 (Transitional Periods for Least
Developed Country Parties under the TRIPS Agreement), a Party
may delay the implementation of certain provisions of this Chapter

67 For greater certainty, nothing in this paragraph shall require a Party to specify online
publication in its laws and regulations.

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