TPP: A missed opportunity

For many years, 12 countries in the Pacific Rim negotiated; they eventually issued a final draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal in February 2016. Like most contemporary free trade agreements, the TPP text contemplated an intellectual property chapter, wherein several dispositions regarding IP rights, patents included, were set. During negotiations and while ratification was pending, the TPP was considered an opportunity not only to update but actually to boost the Mexican patent system.