Providing online services has been one of the mainstreams of the
new administration of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property
(IMPI, by its initials in Spanish).
On March 2019, the first project launched by IMPI was the
electronic notification of office actions through the official
gazette. As an overview, in 2019, IMPI's Patent Division issued
105,243 official documents in paper. Therefore, this initiative
saved money, tons of paper to every user of the Intellectual
Property system and contributed to the environmental care as well.
Another important benefit was the reduction on timeframes of the
process.
One year later, on March 2020, the Covid-19 outbreak caused for
the IMPI to speed up the implementation and launch of additional
projects regarding electronic means to contribute to both
efficiency for the IP system and to government healthcare measures.
The main e-services that IMPI currently provides are:
