The deadline to file comments to the "Draft Modification to the Official Mexican Standard NOM-051" for pre-packaged food and non-alcoholic beverages, expired on December 10, 2019.

On March 27, 2020 the new version of the Mexican Official Standard 051 for Prepacked food and non-alcoholic beverage products was published in the Official Gazette.

The amendments to the Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property (FLPIP), published today, introduce a new filing mechanism allowing applicants to submit provisional patent applications in Mexico.

Within this month, November 2019, two relevant reform acts have been presented before the Mexican Senate, one is addressed to amend the current Industrial Property Law (IPL) and the other to fully enact a new statutory IPL.

Mexico's new patent regulations introduce critical requirements for provisional patent applications, including mandatory fee payments and strict disclosure standards.

Mexico's patent office has established new procedures allowing applicants to request mandatory resolutions for patent, utility model, and design applications that have exceeded prosecution timeframes.

On March 6, 2025, a Decree providing guidelines about the technical collaboration between the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) and the Federal Commission...

Recently, the Attorney General´s Office ("FGR" in Spanish) appointed a new Head of the Specialized Unit for the Investigation ...

As part of the package of legal amendments associated with the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (also known as T-MEC in Mexico), on 5 November 2020 the Federal Law for the Protection of...

Patent waiving for COVID-19 vaccines has been touted as a way to increase access to those jabs.

The amendments to the Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property (FLPIP), published today, introduce, for the first time in Mexican law, a mechanism allowing applicants to request the reinstatement...

In 2008, the Federal Court for Tax and Administrative Affairs (FCTAA) created a Specialized IP Court to decide all the cases related to IP rights, which started work in January 2009.

The Reform will come into force within the next 90 calendar days after it is published in the Federal Government Gazette.

Every six months the Mexican Patent Office (IMPI) publishes an updated version of the "Linkage Gazette", a list of valid patents covering pharmaceutical products which are alphabetically listed according to the generic name of the patented product.

On April 16, 2021, an amendment to the Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law was published in the Official Gazette, aimed at the creation of a National Registry of Mobile Telephone Users...

The lack of regulation in Mexican legislation as to what is, and what should be understood as, "use of a trademark" in order to maintain a registration has long caused uncertainty for...

The shortage of medicines and the facilities provided by e-commerce have increased the sale of medicines that come from abroad, mainly through websites...

Over a two-week period, the Mexican Congress discussed and approved the reform to the Amparo Law, which was published on October 16 and entered into force the following day.

As we previously reported in an earlier newsletter, in accordance with the recent constitutional reform dated November 28, 2024, the extinction of seven autonomous agencies was decreed...

In Mexico, a couple of decades ago, the protection of clinical data was a little-known legal figure, in addition to having been disregarded for many years...