BY DANIEL SANCHEZ, MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INTERNATIONAL BRIEFINGS, APRIL 2009. Since 2000, the proper venues in which to challenge decisions from IMPI included the review recourse proceeding before IMPI itself and/or the nullity trial before the Federal Court for Tax and Administrative Affairs (FCTAA).   Last year, the Supreme Court, through a jurisprudence that is mandatory [...]

BY ARMANDO ARENAS IN MEXICO TRADEMARK RIGHTS ARE ENFORCED MAINLY THROUGH THE TRADEMARK OFFICE. THE ENFORCEMENT OF FAMOUS AND NOTORIOUS MARKS IS GOVERNED BY SPECIFIC RULES On June 16 2005 the Mexican Law of Industrial Property (LIP) was amended to improve the protection afforded to notorious and famous trademarks. The reform introduced a distinction between ‘famous [...]

BY ALEJANDRO LUNA PARTNER PATENT DOCS, 2010 On Friday, August 13, 2010, the Mexican Trademark and Patent Office (IMPI) made available through its website the new edition of the Linkage Gazette (Mexican health and IP law regulations require IMPI to publish a gazette every six months listing patents in force that cover allopathic drugs).  Regrettably, IMPI […]

BY ARMANDO ARENAS INTERNATIONAL BRIEFINGS, MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, OCTOBER 2010 According to the current wording of the Mexican IP Law, injunctions can be imposed during the course of an infringement action related to trademarks, patents or slogans, and the plaintiff has to post a bond of an amount fixed by the Patent of Trade Mark Office […]

BY ERWIN CRUZ MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, FEBRUARY 2011 In 2008, the Federal Court for Tax and Administrative Affairs (FCTAA) created a Specialized IP Court to decide all the cases related to IP rights, which started work in January 2009. But whenever cases referred to arguments based on International IP Treaties, such as the Paris Convention or [...]

BY GUSTAVO ALCOCER PARTNER AND CARLOS WOODWORTH M. ICLG TO: MERGER CONTROL 2011, CHAPTER 28 MEXICO 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 [...]

BY 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 [...]

by Gustavo Alcocer and Andrés de la Cruz The legal framework for PII protection is found in the Federal Law for the Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties, published in July 2010, its Regulations, published in December 2011, the Privacy Notice Rules, published in January 2013, and the Binding Self-Regulation Parameters, also published in January 2013. [...]

 by Gustavo Alcocer and Andrés de la Cruz 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 units. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)

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