BY SERGIO L OLIVARES, JR., PARTNER MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, DECEMBER 2001/JANUARY 2002 The issue of parallel imports has traditionally been a difficult matter to deal with. Objectively speaking we can call it a “fair” situation where the trade mark owner loses control over non-authorized importations of original products after the goods are sold directly by the[...]

BY VARINIA CALLEROS Mexican intellectual property law does not provide protection to trade marks that are not inherently distinctive but have attained secondary meaning through use. This means that companies cannot obtain exclusive rights in Mexico over descriptive or generic words, surnames, geographic names or isolated colours and isolated letters, even through continuous and exclusive use[...]