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On August 1, 2022 a High Court ruled that divisional applications can be filed anytime...

On July 1, 2022 WIPO changed the Sequence Listing format from ST.25 format to ST.26 format...

On January 17, 2022 the Federal Law for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Peoples...

Is a tool designed to avoid duplicating examinations and reduce patent prosecution...

After almost 3 years, Mexico’s “General Health Law’s regulations on production, investigation and medicinal use of Cannabis...

Everyone in Mexico must remember when the long weekend in March in observance...

In a coordinated effort to incentivize the Generic drug industry in Mexico...

Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu, 91 year old Japanese genius holds the world record with over 3,572 patents, from which the floppy disc, CD technology...

On August 10, 2018 the Industrial Property Law underwent one of the most...

On November 5, 2020, Mexico will have a New IP Law containing parts of the previous Law, amendments to the previous Law and new articles which bring into play different manners of prosecuting patent applications. This article focuses on the main changes to the patent system in view of the new Law, however, it does include all changes ...

In contrast to patents that focus on the protection of technical inventions such as manufacturing methods, pharmaceutical compositions, devices seen from...

The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) will start operation as a WIPO DAS depositing Office and...

Several months have now passed since the first news accounts which we received from...

On July 1, 2020 an amendment to the Federal Industrial Property Law was published in the Official Diary for the Federation, which addresses the need to homologate national legislation in the area of...

On July 1, 2020 an amendment to the Federal Copyright Law was published in the Official Gazette, which addresses...

On July 1, 2020, the Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property was published in the Mexican Official Gazette, which will come into...

The accelerated development of artificial intelligence is drastically challenging the generally accepted principles in intellectual and industrial property...

In the course of the last two years the term BLOCKCHAIN has become prevalent in social networks and digital means, but what exactly is it? ...

Due to the national health emergency that Mexico is now facing, due to COVID-19, on April 17, 2020, the Mexican Industrial Property Institute (IMPI) ...

On May 18, 2018 a substantial amendment to the Industrial Property Law in Mexico was published in the Official Diary of the Federation, which will come into effect on August 10, 2018, same which...

Origin Denominations and Geographical Indications

On March 13, 2018 a Reform to the Mexican Industrial Property Law was published in the Official Diary, in which, among other things, the following news is included:...

Further to our communication regarding possible changes in prosecution and maintenance, we can now confirm that the Industrial Property Law will be amended. One of the most relevant ...

If we ask ourselves what it is that an applicant is seeking by applying for a registration before the Mexican Patent and Trademark Office ("IMPI", for its abbreviation in Spanish), the answer would...

Recently the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published a list of the fifty companies which filed the highest number of patents for 2014. Not surprisingly, the list was headed by ...

The Mexican Patent and Trademark Office (MXPTO) has, for decades, accepted the substantive examination results for applications with American, European and...

On November 19, 2012, the Mexican Government deposited before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) its instrument of accession to the Protocol...

General information regarding the Madrid Protocol...

On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), put into circulation in the Industrial Property Gazette, the 10th edition of the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes ...

Yesterday, the Mexican Official Gazette published a communication related to the measures taken for applicants affected by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011...