BY CARMEN SADA Y GARCÍA NARANJO There is no doubt that substantial efforts have been effected in Mexico to improve trade mark protection, such as those contained in the 2005 amendment to the Mexican Industrial Property Law, where the possibility to obtain declarations for well known and famous trade marks has been established. However, it is [...]

BY SERGIO L. OLIVARES, JR. PARTNER 1. LEGAL FRAMEWORK NATIONAL Trademarks in Mexico are governed by the Industrial Property Law 1991 (as amended), and its supplementary regulations. INTERNATIONAL Mexico is a signatory to the following International trademark treaties: the North America Free Trade Agreement (Sixth Part, Chapter XVII - Intellectual Property); the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of [...]

BY SERGIO L. OLIVARES, JR. PARTNER 1. LEGAL FRAMEWORK NATIONAL Trademarks in Mexico are governed by the Industrial Property Law 1991 (as amended), and its supplementary regulations. INTERNATIONAL Mexico is a signatory to the following international trademark treaties: the North America Free Trade Agreement (Sixth Part, Chapter XVII — Intellectual Property); the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of [...]

BY SERGIO L OLIVARES, JR., PARTNER MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, DECEMBER 2001/JANUARY 2002 The issue of parallel imports has traditionally been a difficult matter to deal with. Objectively speaking we can call it a “fair” situation where the trade mark owner loses control over non-authorized importations of original products after the goods are sold directly by the […]

BY JOSÉ I. DE SANTIAGO AND JUAN CARLOS VILLASEÑOR The Mexican Industrial Property system, and therefore the legal bodies ruling it, have been amended several times in recent years. One of these amendments relates to the adoption of different systems for the classification of goods and services. This adoption of different classification systems in recent [...]

ROUNDTABLE: IP IN LATIN AMERICA MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, JUNE 2010 AS LATIN AMERICA BECOMES AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT MARKET, RIGHTS OWNERS MUST BE AWARE OF THE EVOLVING LAWS AROUND ISSUES SUCH AS DIGITAL RIGHTS AND NON-TRADITIONAL TRADE MARKS IN THE REGION. MANAGING IP DISCUSSED THE KEY CHALLENGES WITH SEVERAL PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN IP COMMUNITY. Participants: [...]