In 1994, the Federal Law of the Administrative Procedure was enacted in order to unify under the same principles, all administrative procedures scattered in many different laws in Mexico. Article 1 of the law limited its applicability to governmental entities in direct connection with the central executive officer. Under Mexican legislation, the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) is not envisioned as a centralized entity, instead it is considered as one of the decentralized entities that were excluded from the application of this Law.
Last year, article 4 of the Law was amended, so its application would apparently include all executive entities without distinguishing whether they were centralized or decentralized, except for those entities expressly excluded by the law (the IMPI is not mentioned within such entities). Although it is a discussed matter with the federal judges (where we can even find contradictory criteria), there is nothing clear as to whether or not this
