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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has recognized the leadership of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI)...

Punitive damages allow a higher compensation in favor of the plaintiff, derived from the seriousness of the wrongful act committed, with the purpose of discouraging the harmful conduct.

On November 19, 2025, the Gaceta Parlamentaria published the initiative titled "Amendment to various provisions of the General Law of Culture and Cultural Rights...

On March 10, 2021, a press release was published in several media, that is, a statement of the national cinematographic and audiovisual community regarding the initiative of the...

There is no doubt that the easiest way to reach consumers today is through digital platforms. Companies or providers do not only offer their services through their web pages...

Voluntary divisional applications are a good strategy for obtaining protection for specific embodiments of an invention that were not granted in a certain parent case and that are of commercial interest for the applicant.

The Mexican President, in an effort to increase the supply of generic medicines and medicines from abroad, ordered the health authorities to take the necessary measures to expedite the granting

Also, on May 31, "World Tobacco Day," the president of Mexico issued a decree regarding vapes and electronic cigarettes use in the country, which came into effect immediately.

COFEPRIS, the Mexican sanitary agency, has finally decided to continue working in a digital platform that would allow the conclusion of several procedures in "minutes" rather than months.

Earlier this year, the President of the Republic presented a package of proposed constitutional amendments, which included a restructuring of the Judiciary. This initiative has generated intense debate in Mexico...

For many years, the experimental and academic use exception was incorrectly applied in Mexico to declare third parties who imported raw materials while the patents that protected the correlative...

Recently, a Collegiate Court in Civil Matters upheld a thesis that established that expert accounting evidence is inadmissible in ordinary commercial proceedings when the alleged...

On July 1, 2020, and as a result of the entry into force of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), the new Federal Law for Protection of the Industrial Property...

As of November 5, 2020, a new Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property (IPPL) will supersede the current Industrial Property Law (IPL). The IPPL provides new rules regarding the...

As reported in our newsletter of June 10, 2020, IMPI launched an online service to allow electronic prosecution of patent, utility model, and design applications that were initially submitted on paper.

As a procedural requirement to file a patent invalidity claim before the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), it is a requirement that the plaintiff demonstrates having legal standing...

The new regulation maintains only the prohibition relating to those marks deemed contrary to public order or those which contravene legal provisions.