Considering the contingency measures adopted to prevent the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, both federal and local jurisdictional authorities, have suspended their activities from March 18 to..

The Mexican Law of Industrial Property establishes in section IV of article 90, an absolute ground for refusal based on the descriptiveness of the mark.

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.

Nearshoring has changed the dynamics of global production chains by moving processes to regions that are geographically closer to target markets for geopolitical, logistical, and strategic reasons.

From May 29 to July 8, 2025, employees of the Mexico City courts suspended activities as a means of exerting pressure to demand better working conditions.

On April 22, 2025, a proposal was submitted to the Deputies Chamber proposing to reform articles 4, 25 and 28 of the Mexican Constitution, regarding pharmaceutical sovereignty and security.

On June 11, 2025, was published in the DOF the "AGREEMENT recognizing as equivalent the requirements established in the Health Regulation and the technical evaluation procedures...

On April 24, 2023, the Mexican Senate approved the newly revised National Code of Civil and Family Procedure.

The Court ordered the infringer, an actor in the cookie industry, to pay tens of millions of pesos, plus legal fees and costs, in favor of our client, for marketing cookies that used a confusingly similar trademark without authorization

When dealing with international litigious matters, especially related to intellectual property, the intricacies of notarial procedures can present significant challenges.

In recent years the Mexican Patent and Trademark Office (IMPI) allowed the possibility that complainants credit their legal standing on trademark non-use cancellation proceedings...

Several pieces of Mexican legislation in recent years have established the validity of consent letters in formalising the coexistence of identical or similar trademarks...

As of August 10, 2018, in Mexico, a DAU of the registered mark must be submitted along with each renewal application...

Border measures are a fundamental legal instrument to fight piracy and/or counterfeiting since they allow counterfeit products to be seized before they enter the country and into circulation...

Article 192 Bis 1 of the abrogated Industrial Property Law establishes that, when the patent subject of analysis in a procedure for administrative declaration of infringement is a process for obtaining a product, by legal mandate, the burden of proof is reversed.

Last August 21, PROFECO ("Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor" for its acronym in Spanish) published the "Advertising Guide for Influencers" in a very innovative and visual format...

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