{"id":1625,"date":"2012-04-17T19:55:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T01:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reyesfenigeng.wordpress.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2012-04-17T19:55:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T01:55:26","slug":"january-2012-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reyesfenig.com\/en\/2012\/04\/17\/january-2012-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"An amendment in the Industrial Property Statute increases fines for bad-faith infringers in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">One of the main issues or concern among IP owners and practitioners in Mexico is the enforceability of IP rights. It is a usual complaint that Mexican authorities are not doing enough to effectively enforce IP rights, to say the least (Of course, the law enforceability problems are not exclusive of IP).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">O<\/span><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">n the other hand, it seems that there is the generalized idea among law-makers and government officials that amending the statutes to make the penalties therein stipulated more severe is an effective way to discourage illicit activities, thus somehow curing the lack of effective enforcement.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">In this sense, on January 12, 2012 the Federal Journal of the Federation (official communication channel of the Federal Government) published several procedural and substantive amendments to the Industrial Property Law. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">Some amendments, such as the ones aimed to ease the service of official communications and decisions issued by the Mexican Patent and Trademark Office (MPTO), only concern Mexican practitioners and I am not going to discuss them here.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">Other more interesting amendment duplicates the fines associated to trademark, copyright and patent infringement in case of bad-faith infringers, and stipulates a presumption of bad-faith infringement.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">If the trademark, copyright or patent owner marked the product with a warning about the existence of an exclusivity right (including but not limited to the \u00a9 symbol with the date of first publication\/disclosure of the work, name and address of the copyright holder; <em>Patentado<\/em> or equivalent; \u00ae, M.R., <em>Marca Registrada<\/em> or equivalent) or published a warning about such an exclusivity right in a nationwide newspaper, then the infringer is presumed to be a bad-faith infringer and the amount of fine must be automatically doubled. It is my opinion that such a bad-faith presumption is a <em>iuris et the iure<\/em> presumption, that is, that the infringer may not file the evidence to prove on the contrary. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">There is more information about the trademark and patent marking in our ealier <a title=\"Trademark and Patent Marking Under Mexican Law\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/reyesfenigeng.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/30\/trademark-and-patent-marking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">Although it is good to have more severe penalties for IP infringers, I believe that it would be better if the authorities work harder to effectively enforce the provisions we already have. For example, the MPTO may take almost one month to issue a preliminary measures order (similar to an injunction) in a patent or trademark infringement case, reflecting a lack of sense of urgency (to say the least) completely inconsistent with the purposes of the preliminary measures.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;\">Rather than amending laws and regulations, we need a change of attitude about what it means to be the administrative authority in charge of enforcing IP rights.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some comments about the amendments to the Mexican Industrial Property Statute of January 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,296,297],"tags":[37,38,61,344,363,112,377,378,380,382,390,391,392,412,418,420,422,435,241,242,484,487],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-copyright-law","category-patent-law","category-trademark-law","tag-arturo-d-reyes","tag-arturo-reyes","tag-copyright","tag-enforcement","tag-fines","tag-impi","tag-industrial-property","tag-industrial-property-law","tag-infringement","tag-intellectual-property","tag-ip","tag-ip-enforcement","tag-ip-litigation","tag-mexican-patent-and-trademark-office","tag-mexico-law","tag-mexico-trademarks","tag-mpto","tag-patents","tag-reyes-fenig","tag-reyes-lomelin","tag-trademark-litigation","tag-trademarks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>An amendment in the Industrial Property Statute increases fines for bad-faith infringers in Mexico - Reyes Fenig<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/reyesfenig.com\/en\/2012\/04\/17\/january-2012-amendment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An amendment in the Industrial Property Statute increases fines for bad-faith infringers in Mexico - Reyes Fenig\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some comments about the amendments to the Mexican Industrial Property Statute of January 2012.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/reyesfenig.com\/en\/2012\/04\/17\/january-2012-amendment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Reyes Fenig\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-04-18T01:55:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/reyesfenig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/blog.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"870\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"580\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Arturo D. 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