How data affects innovation
			
				by Gustavo Alcocer & Enrique Lara  Personal data protection has always been recognised as a fundamental human right by most jurisdictions all over the world. In Mexico it was not until a few years ago, when amendments were made to our legal system to regulate personal data protection, following international principles of transparency, legitimate use and proportionality[...]			
				
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	New registry for security interests
			
				POR RICARDO CADENA MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, DECEMBER 2010 / JANUARY 2011 Enforcing security interests is not always as simple as we may want it to be, especially when it comes to chasing debtors who retain title or possession of secured IP, or any movable asset colateral, where the debtor can assign or set that asset as[...]			
				
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	A practical cross-border insight into merger control
			
				por Gustavo Alcocer & Carlos Woodworth   1      Relevant authorities and legislation   1.1  Who is/are the relevant merger authority(ies)?   The Federal Competition Commission, which is an administrative agency independent from the Mexican Ministry of Economy, has technical and operational autonomy to issue its resolutions. The Commission is integrated to exercise merger authority by public officials, divisions and administrative[...]			
				
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	Approval of follow-on biologics in Mexico
			
				por Armando Arenas y Juan Luis Serrano The Mexican General Health Law was reformed on 11th June 2009 to include Article 222bis, which defined biotechnological drugs and allowed for the approval of so-called “biocomparables”.  The decree came into force on 8th September 2009 and the Ministry of Health had a 180-day period to issue all the specific regulations pertaining[...]			
				
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