MEXICAN IP LAW


be understood when the infringer acknowledges MIIP’s commissioned inspector the existence of exclusive IP rights due to the use of legends established in the IPL (ie, MR, ©, ®, etc), publication in the Official Gazette of Industrial Property, publication in a newspaper of national circulation or through a notice with acknowledgement of receipt.


an inspection is expressly


Te penalty incorporated into article 220 for cases of “knowingly committed” infringement, is double the amount of the fine imposed for the base infringement conduct.


However, considering that the effects of the use of legends established in the IPL, as well as of a public announcement in the Official Gazette of Industrial Property or a newspaper of national circulation, is for third parties to acknowledge the existence of granted IP rights, it can be inferred that, as a consequence of this amendment, all infringement punishments shall be doubled.


While the amendments to the IPL regarding the service of notice of official communications implies the introduction of a new operative method for the MIIP, which now involves a burden for both the MIIP authorities and the parties, wherein


the formal addition of a paragraph the


sanction of disallowing the foreseen,


to conduct only


constitutes the materialisation of a practice that de facto was already being exercised by the competent administrative authorities and, so, was accepted by the parties as a non-written, or customary, rule.


Te addition of new causes of infringement and of penalties related to these, on the other hand, represents a rather questionable improvement to Mexico’s IP legal system. Mainly, because it is hard to be certain about the time, and fashion, in which the infringement action based on any of these novel grounds for infringement would have to be exercised, and whether they are opening the gate for third authorities to be summoned as defendants within infringement proceedings. n


Edith Lopez is an attorney at Becerril, Coca & Becerril


SC. She


elopez@bcb.com.mx Irma Ross


& Becerril iross@bcb.com.mx can be


Edith Lopez joined Becerril, Coca & Becerril SC in 2005. She is a member of AMPPI (Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)


and has published articles in several IP-related media. Lopez focuses her practice in litigation, particularly involving patents and trademarks, anti-counterfeiting, civil and administrative procedures, and industrial property law.


Irma Ross joined Becerril, Coca & Becerril SC in 2008. She is member of AMPPI (Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property).


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is an attorney at Becerril, Coca SC.


She can be contacted at:


As an IP litigation attorney, Ross focuses her practice in the areas of IP litigation, enforcement, and anti-counterfeiting. She handles trademarks and copyrights, administrative proceedings, constitutional actions, and Amparo trials.


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