Mexico's Patent Linkage System And Allopathic Medicines

Over 20 years ago, derived from the innumerable and uncontainable violations of pharmaceutical patents and for publicity purposes of the patents that protect allopathic medicines, on 19 September 2003, the Decree reforming the Regulation of Supplies for Health and the Regulation of the Industrial Property Law, published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, by means of which fraction IV was added to article 167 and article 167 bis of the Regulation of Supplies for Health, and to article 47 bis of the Regulations of the Industrial Property Law, introduce the Gazette of Allopathic Medicines with a Valid Patent into the scope of the linkage system, whose publication will be carried out according to the active substance or ingredient.