The first balanced approach to protecting copyright online
BY LUIS SCHMIDT Partner Mexico’s draft copyright bill could be the first to effectively combine the interests of stakeholders in the digital copyright debate. In an attempt to protect their rights online, copyright owners have traditionally targeted Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who provide access to digital networks, render hosting or search engine services or connect through [...]
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When copyrights and patents collide
by Luis Schmidt Let us begin with a few definitions. Copyright law concerns the rights afforded to works used in media. Rights (patrimonial rights) can be exclusive or non-exclusive rights to use a work. Works are original expressions by authors that a final user can read, view or listen. However, reading, viewing or listening is not [...]
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Design protection can be broadened
by Roberto Salgado Mexican Industrial Property Law provides for protection of a model in any three-dimensional shape that may serve as a pattern for the manufacture of an industrial product. The model can be embodied by an entire product or only a part. Where priority from a foreign design application is claimed, such protection may be [...]
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The International Comparative Legal Guide – Merger Control 2012
BY GUSTAVO ALCOCER & CARLOS WOODWORTH 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 integrated to exercise merger authority by public officials, divisions and administrative [...]
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Getting the Deal Through -Trademarks 2013
BY SERGIO L. OLIVARES, JR. PARTNER MEXICO 1 Ownership of marks Who may apply? Trademarks in Mexico are regulated under Mexico’s current Law of Industrial Property (LIP), which was enacted on 27 June 1991 and further amended on 2 August 1994, and also under the Regulations to the LIP. Article 87 of the LIP establishes who [...]
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New Trademark Examiner’s Manual
by Alonso Camargo For the past few months, the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), together with several members of the Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AMPPI), have been working towards the creation of a Trademark Examiners’ manual. For many years, IMPI’s trademark examiners worked without specific examining guidelines, which resulted in several [...]
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