{"id":1618,"date":"2010-03-31T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reyesfenigeng.wordpress.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2010-03-31T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T20:45:09","slug":"courts-disagree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reyesfenig.com\/en\/2010\/03\/31\/courts-disagree\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican courts disagree about the term extension of patents"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been a lot of discussions about the term extension of pipe-line<\/em> patents in Mexico. The discussions have included the language used in Transitory Article Twelve of the Industrial Property Law of 1991 (allowing the pipe-line<\/em>\u00a0patents) and the rulings from the Federal Court of Tax and Administrative Affairs (FCTAA) regarding this matter.<\/p>\n

The decisions of the FCTAA\u00a0have made the Mexican Patent and Trademark Office (MPTO) to acknowledge the extension of term of several pipe-line <\/em>patents, for the same extended term granted to the corresponding foreign patent from which the priority was claimed. Further, the decisions of the Highest Chamber of the FCTAA allowing the extension of term are now binding*. For a more\u00a0detailed explanation about Mexican pipe-line<\/em> patents and their extension, you may review the post\u00a0 The extension of life of patents in Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In spite of the relatively large number of extended pipe-line patents, all the controversy surrounding the pipe-line patents themselves and their life extensions and that the FCTAA published the first precedent regarding this matter in 2005, neither the Federal Courts of Appeals nor the Supreme Court had published any ruling concerning the term extension of pipe-line patents, until January 2010.<\/p>\n

The January 2010 issue of the Weekly Judicial Journal of the Federation publishes a non-binding decision of he First Court of Appeals in Administrative Matters of the First Circuit (based in Mexico City)**. This decision is associated to a final appeal (Amparo\u00a0Directo<\/em>) filed by the well-known Mexican pharmaceutical company Probiomed, S.A. de C.V. The decision rules that the term of pipe-line<\/em>\u00a0patents, and of all patents in general, cannot be extended whatsoever. This decision is in open conflict with the binding ruling of the FCTAA, and restarts a discussion that I thought was (a few technicalities aside) essentially over, as a consequence of the binding precedent from the FCTAA and because all pipe-line<\/em> patents, even the extended ones, should expire by mid 2012 (the statute provided that no pipe-line<\/em>\u00a0patent could have a term longer than 20 years counted from the filing date in Mexico).<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding the above, the decision of the Federal Court of Appeals does not imply an actual change in the way Transitory Article Twelve of the 1991 Industrial Property Statute has been understood, particularly concerning the extension of pipe-line<\/em> patents.<\/p>\n

The decision of the First Court of Appeals in Mexico City is non binding (the binding precedents\u00a0of the Highest Chamber of the FCTAA\u00a0are not binding for\u00a0 the District Courts and Courts of Appeals, only for the different lower Chambers of the FCTAA), so there is no reason for the Specialized Chamber in Intellectual Property of the FCTAA\u00a0to stop following the binding decision of the Highest Chamber of the FCTAA\u00a0and continue ordering the MPTO to acknowledge the term extension of pipe-line<\/em> patents when the foreign patent offices grant the term extension of the foreign patent that corresponds to the claimed priority in the Mexican pipe-line<\/em> patent.<\/p>\n

We have to wait to see if the precedent from the First Court of Appeals in Mexico City causes the intervention of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court may intervene if there is\u00a0a contradictory ruling from another Court of Appeals. I believe that at least the first decision of the Highest Chamber of the FCTAA allowing the extension of term of a pipe-line <\/em>patent (precedent V-P-SS-629, decided on July 7, 2004) was appealed by the MPTO\u00a0and a Court of Appeals had to decide based on the merits of the appeal (the statute changed in December 2005; since then, most appeals of the MPTO\u00a0against the decisions of the FCTAA are dismissed).<\/p>\n

Not everybody is allowed to demand the intervention of the Supreme Court to decide which of the contradictory decisions held by different courts of appeals is right, but the MPTO\u00a0can. I hope that the MPTO, or the parties involved in the appeals, will soon demand such intervention of the Supreme Court, so we may have certainty about the validity of the term extension of Mexican pipe-line<\/em> patents. (Update January 2011: Unfortunately, as a result of some formal flaws in the appeal brief that the MPTO\u00a0filed against the first decision of the Highest Chamber of the FCTAA of 2004, the Federal Court of Appeals dismissed that appeal without reviewing the merits, thus the intervention of the Supreme Court, will take more time to occur, if ever).<\/em><\/p>\n

* Jurisprudencia <\/em>or binding decision VI-J-SS-40. Journal of the Federal Court of Tax and Administrative Affairs, Sixth Era, Year II, No. 21, September 2009, page 27.<\/p>\n

** Isolated precedent published in the Weekly Judicial Journal of the Federation, Ninth Era, Courts of Appeals, XXXI, January 2010, page 2173.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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