Aug - 13 - 2019 After the amendments to the General Health Law and Criminal Code to remove the prohibitionist system on the use of cannabis for medical and scientific purposes, Mexico is still yet to approve specific regulations concerning cannabis uses. Recently, Mexico’s Senate published in its official Gazette, a proposal to modify several [...]

Jul - 09 - 2019 A Circuit Court recently observed that industrial property owners can be awarded with actual damages plus 40% of infringing products sales as punitive damages. The Mexican IP Law, Article 221 bis, provides that damages awarded to the claimant shall be no less than 40% of the sales of the infringing [...]

May - 30 - 2019 Mexico’s Senate recently published in its Official Gazette a new proposal relating to the IP and Health law reform package that would include the following changes: “Patent exceptions”: The proposal would incorporate the Bolar clause provided in the Health Law Regulations into the IP law. As a result, a patent [...]

May - 16 - 2019 Mexico´s Senate recently published in its official Gazette a proposal to modify several provisions of the Mexican Industrial Property Law (IP Law). In summary, the proposal includes the following additions to the IP Law: The Mexican Patent and Trademark Office (IMPI) as the administrative authority in IP matters would be [...]