New guidelines for approvals and renewals of biologics

By: Blanca
Date: January 12, 2015
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Category: Newsletters - Regulatory Law

OLIVARES - Page 58 On 9th February 2015, the recently issued Mexican Official Standard Rule NOM-257-SSA1-2014 for Biologics ("NOM 257") will enter into effect. This Standard Rule was published in the Federal Official Gazette on 11th December 2014 by the Head of the Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks (Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos [...]

By: Blanca
Date: October 16, 2014
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Category: Patent-Law-Articles

by Georgina Flores Since March 1 2011, when the Mexican Institute of the Industrial Property (IMPI) established with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) a pilot programme for the Patent Prosecution Highway, the trend has continued with different offices. The Spanish Office of Patents and Trademarks (OEPM) joined a three year pilot programme which [...]

By: Blanca
Date: September 24, 2014
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Category: Patent-Law-Articles

by Osvaldo Amaral Mexico is a top oil producer and has the ninth largest oil and gas sector in the world. With estimated reserves of 50 to 60 billion barrels in the Gulf of Mexico and the sixth largest shale reserves globally, Mexico has entered the dawn of a new oil and gas era with recent [...]

By: Blanca
Date: September 18, 2014
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Category: Patent-Law-Articles

by Alejandro Luna and Luz Elena Elías On August 12 2014, Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto enacted several secondary or regarding the energy Constitutional reform. These will allow the opening of the oil, gas and power sector industries to foreign and private investment, leaving behind 76 years of state monopoly (PEMEX and CFE). This new regulatory structure, which [...]

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Date: August 18, 2014
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Category: Newsletters - Regulatory Law

By: Blanca
Date: June 10, 2014
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Category: Trademark Law Articles

by Emilio Alabarran The Mexican Trademark Office (MTO) has a two-step examination process. The first is the examination of formalities and the proper identification of goods or services, and the second relates to relative and absolute grounds of refusal. We focused our analysis on some practices regarding formalities examination, in particular based on the proper identification [...]

By: Blanca
Date: May 15, 2014
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Category: Trademark Law Articles

by Martha Celis The trade mark system in Mexico faces several problems because there are numerous trade mark registrations in the Registry that were granted to identify a lot of products and/or services within one class. In commercial practice these trade marks are not used to identify each and every product and/or service protected, but only [...]

By: Blanca
Date: May 13, 2014
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Category: Newsletters - Regulatory Law

May -2014 At the end of this year, the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice debated wherein "recreational" use of cannabis should be authorized by the Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risk (COFEPIRS), the Mexican Health Regulatory Agency. A Mexican no profitable association, conformed by four individuals contested a refusal of a petition filed before [...]

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Date: February 18, 2014
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Category: Newsletters - Media & Entertaiment

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