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Mexican Congress Amends IP Law

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Juan Serrano -- On June 18, 2010, a decree was published in the Federal Official Gazette, reforming several provisions of the Mexican IP law related to patent practice. The main amendments are the following: a) The industrial application requirement for patentability was modified to include a need to demonstrate the possibility of "practical utility" of the invention, and to fully support such utility in the written description. b) In a period of six months after the publication of the patent application, information related to patentability of an invention can be filed before the Mexican Patent Office (IMPI) by any...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).