It took more than 25 years for the necessary and long-awaited new Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property to be enacted in Mexico. It is not a secret that the previous Industrial Property Law, which is no longer valid, resulted from the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA.

Introduction: In a recent landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc., that the Lanham Act cannot have extraterritorial application. This decision reaffirms that trademark use and infringement must occur within the United States