The Future Of The Linkage System In Mexico

Less than a month after the new Federal Law on the Protection of Industrial Property (LFPPI) was published in the Federal Official Gazette on Nov. 5, 2020, two proposals for amendments to the recently approved law were presented with the direct purpose of strengthening the linkage system of pharmaceutical patents in our country.

Specifically, the following proposals were presented:

• Initiative by Deputy Silvia Lorena Villavicencio Ayala and Deputy Porfirio Muñoz Ledo.
• The Draft Decree presented by Deputy Soraya Pérez Munguía and various Deputies of the Parliamentary Group of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

It is not surprising that a few days after the publication of a law, proposals to reform it are presented, and what most caught my attention is that the deputies who presented these early proposals for amendments are the same ones who discussed, analyzed, and passed that same law.