Jul - 14 - 2020 On July 10, the Mexico City government issued a notice in the Official Gazette, informing that the audiovisual industry may return to activities, with certain restrictions. It states that the maximum capacity shall be 30 people during filming in open spaces (outdoors) and 10 people in closed spaces (indoors). Similarly, [...]
Jul - 10 - 2020 As we previously informed, in view of the contingency measures adopted to prevent the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, IMPI suspended its normal activities and interrupted terms from March 24 until further notice. These restrictions have been lifted and as a consequence, IMPI published a decree in the Federal Official [...]
Jul - 09 -2020 As OLIVARES previously informed, due the contingency measures adopted to prevent the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, federal and local jurisdictional authorities, suspended their activities from March 18 to June 30, 2020, leaving only shift to post guard in cases of urgency and emergency and decreed that no procedural terms would [...]
Jul - 07 - 2020 As a follow-up to our newsletter dated March 26, we inform you that the amendments to several provisions of the Mexican Copyright Law were approved by Congress, with minimal changes in form to the original initiative, and therefore were published in the Official Gazette on July 1st. As commented, the [...]
Jul - 03 - 2020 As OLIVARES informed in our last newsletter, the Lower Chamber of Mexican Congress approved the draft of the Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property. On the evening edition of July 1, 2020, of the Official Gazette, it was published the new Law establishing that the entry into force will [...]
Jul - 02 - 2020 In the context of the USMCA entering into force, July 1st, one day after, the Lower Chamber of the Mexican Congress approved the draft the “Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property” (new industrial property law). The new bill was approved by the Lower Chamber without any changes to [...]
Jun - 29 - 2020 This weekend, the Mexican Senate was highly active. After strong discussions about the Roche-Bolar exception and pharmaceutical patent issues, the Senators approved the latest version of the so-called “dictamen” (opinion) of the new law of industrial property, and also approved the extraordinary remedy to pass the law prior to July [...]
Jun - 26 - 2020 As OLIVARES previously informed, as a result of the contingency measures adopted due to COVID-19, both the federal and local jurisdictional authorities had agreed to suspend activities from March 18 until June 30, 2020 (except those activities required for causes of urgency or emergency), and decided that no procedural terms [...]