Introduction
The Industrial Property Law is currently under revision at the
Senate. Two legal initiatives proposed by different senators will
have to be studied, but one of them is more likely to prevail
because it has the support of the Mexican Institute of Industrial
Property (IMPI) and aims to entirely substitute the current
law.
Among the objectives of the revised proposal, which include the
implementation of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, is updating the
eligibility criteria of biotechnology-related inventions.
Revisiting morals and ordre public objections
Article 27(2) of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of
Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) provides World Trade
Organisation (WTO) member states a general right, under certain
conditions, to deny patentability to protect "ordre public
or morality".
