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No legal basis for banning names derived from INNs

By: Blanca
Date: Nov 26, 2010
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Category: Trademark Law Articles

BY VARINIA CALLEROS International Non-Proprietary Names (INNs) are names for pharmaceutical substances or active pharmaceutical ingredients recognised as public property. They are treated as generic names by international authorities, with around 8,000 published at present. The World Health Organisation (WHO) provides guidelines for its member states, of which Mexico is one, on the use of INNs[...]

By: Blanca
Date: Nov 22, 2010
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Category: Patent-Law-Articles

POR ROMMY MORALES INTERNATIONAL BRIEFINGS, MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, SEPTEMBER 2010 Article 19, section VII of the Mexican Industrial Property Law establishes, inter alia, that methods of therapeutic treatment applicable to the human body and to animals shall not be considered as inventions; as a result, such methods are expressly excluded from patentability. However, under Mexican law and[...]

By: Blanca
Date: Nov 22, 2010
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Category: Patent-Law-Articles

BY GEORGINA FLORES In order to update the means of receiving documentation, the Mexican Patent Office (IMPI) has amended the Rules for filing applications by means of an Act published on March 18 2010 in the Official Gazette. The Act is effective from the following day. Relevant issues in this Act include those referred to in[...]