MEXICAN IP LAW


• When the holder of a patent, or its licensee, user or


distributor, initiates 203 of infringement


proceedings against one or more third parties, once the MIIP has determined, in a prior administrative proceeding and through an enforceable


judgment, the same infringement;


• Obstructing the access of the commissioned personnel to practise visits of inspection, in terms of article 206; and


• Without just cause, not furnishing information and data to the MIIP when it requires them in exercise of the authorities set forth in article 203(1).


Although the first of these new grounds for


infringement appears to serve the purpose for which it was presumably raised—to narrow the filing of unfruitful infringement actions—it is questionable whether the rest of the causes will accomplish a more effective and consistent IP system in Mexico, or would, instead, detract from it.


According to the recent amendments to the


IPL, the act of opposing or disallowing a visit of inspection shall be deemed not only as a tacit recognition of the facts claimed by the plaintiff in


the non-existence of


“THE PENALTY INCORPORATED INTO ARTICLE 220 FOR CASES OF ‘KNOWINGLY COMMITTED’ INFRINGEMENT, IS DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF THE FINE IMPOSED FOR THE BASE INFRINGEMENT CONDUCT.”


the IPL, is to verify the fulfilment of


the provisions set forth in the IPL—the first question that arises is whether the new causes for infringement relating to the obstruction of a visit of inspection and the non-furnishing of information and/or data would be then ex officio added to the original administrative proceeding, or shall be claimed throughout an independent infringement action filed by an interested party.


A second question yet to be defined by the MIIP’s criteria and practice, is whether the incorporation of the non-furnishing of information and/or data as a cause for infringement of those listed under article 213 of the IPL, opens the gate for third authorities to be summoned as defendants within infringement proceedings, when summons of information and/or data have been addressed to them and remain unanswered without just cause.


the administrative infringement action, but also as Knowingly committed infringement a new and independent ground for infringement.


Since visits of information


are


inspection and summons of commonly


conducted proceeding—because by


the MIIP during the due course of a pending administrative


the ratio legis of said actions, according to article


A new penalty for infringement actions carried out in the knowledge that an infringement was being committed was


established within the


IPL’s amendments. Article 220 was modified to


incorporate a penalty for “knowingly


committed” infringements. As set forth within the new text of article 220 of the IPL, this shall


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