There are evident loopholes in Mexican legislation regarding IP rights and clinical data protection framed in the scope of sanitary regulatory affairs. Soledad Betanzos-Lara of Goodrich, Riquelme y Asociados reports
Category: Intellectual Property
WTR 1000 -2013 Rankings: Enrique Diaz Ranks Gold Banding (No. 1) in Enforcement and Litigation and in Prosecution and Strategy
Enrique Diaz stands in the Gold Banding (No. 1) for this year’s edition individual rankings in Enforcement and Litigation for The World Trademark Review 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals (WTR 1000). WTR 1000 is a guide to the trademark legal services market edited and published by The World Trademark Review, the world’s only independent multimedia publication dedicated exclusively to reporting on trademark issues.
WTR 1000 conducts local and global researches to identify the leading professionals in the trademark area exclusively, achieving accurate rankings based on their findings. According to the WTR 1000 website, “firms and individuals in the gold band are those that attract the most positive comments from sources. Their success hinges on reputations established over lengthy periods of time, something which enables them to secure the most highprofile, big-ticket work from the most demanding of clients.”
Enrique A. Díaz is Appointed Member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property.
During its XVIII Congress at Punta del Este, the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI for its acronym in Spanish) recently appointed our firm’s IP head partner, Enrique A. Díaz, as a member (3rd Director) of its Executive Committee. ASIPI is the first intellectual property regional organism in the American continent. It was founded in April 1964 after an international meeting of 25 experts from 17 countries that later derived in a Convention held at Mexico City for its creation. Currently, ASIPI is an organization comprised of over 1,000 members from over 50 countries around the world. ASIPI acts as an observing member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and also participates in other international forums, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Claim first use carefully.
New guidelines may fail to protect the public.
Don’t be fooled by trade mark folklore.
Patents, industrial drawings and models.
Pros and cons of claiming a date of first use in México.
The Mexican trade mark system has adopted a sui generis (or characteristically unique) approach to trade mark use. In most cases, the system does not grant common law rights. Thus, the sole way to obtain the exclusive right to use and to enforce a trade mark is through a registration obtained from the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI).