BY ARMANDO ARENAS INTERNATIONAL BRIEFINGS, MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, OCTOBER 2010 According to the current wording of the Mexican IP Law, injunctions can be imposed during the course of an infringement action related to trademarks, patents or slogans, and the plaintiff has to post a bond of an amount fixed by the Patent of Trade Mark Office[...]

BY ROMMY MORALES Article 19, section VII of the Mexican Industrial Property Law establishes, inter alia, that methods of therapeutic treatment applicable to the human body and to animals shall not be considered as inventions; as a result, such methods are expressly excluded from patentability. However, under Mexican law and practice, there is no exclusion of the[...]