BY DANIEL SÁNCHEZ MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, APRIL 2004 On September 19, 2003, a Decree was published in the Official Gazette of the Federal Government, with amendments to the Regulations of the Health Law as well as to the Regulations of the Law on Industrial Property. The purpose of the amendments is to establish coordination rules between[...]

BY JOSÉ I. DE SANTIAGO MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INTERNATIONAL BRIEFINGS, APRIL 2002 The Mexican Law of Industrial Property establishes certain exclusions for the enforcement of patents. Among these exclusions, article 22 part I establishes that a patent would not produce any effect against a third party, which in a private or academic environment, with non-commercial purposes,[...]

BY OSVALDO AMARAL MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INTERNATIONAL BRIEFINGS, SEPTEMBER 2005 Applicants interested in protecting business methods and software related inventions in Mexico are not completely prevented from protecting these types of inventions if certain considerations are taken into account. Although Article 19, Section III of the Law of Industrial Property expressly deems business methods per se and software per[...]