The enforcement of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) in Mexico
will celebrate 14 years next year.
As of June 1995, when filing of patent applications under the
PCT officially took off, the PCT system has proven to be an
efficient and useful tool for the filing of patent and utility
model applications in Mexico. In fact, the number of patent
applications in Mexico has been steadily rising year after year,
and an important percentage of these applications have been filed
under the PCT system.
The LPI does not mention any specific provision for filing
national phase applications in Mexico. Considering that there is no
link between many of the provisions of the LPI and the PCT, and
since the PCT, as an International Treaty, is above the LPI, many
of the provisions for filing the formal requirements of national
phase applications are taken directly from the PCT. These PCT
provisions have become a normal practice for filing the formal
requirements of a national phase
