With a new president likely to oust him as director general of IMPI, José Rodrigo Roque Díaz is in a race against time to improve IP awareness in Mexico. Refusing to play the part of lame duck, Roque spoke with Managing IP about his ambitious plans for the Office
Agustin Velázquez, Alvaro Huerta and Tomás Arankowsky of Avah Legal offer an overview of the relationship between intellectual property and antitrust regulations
Jorge Juárez of Becerril Coca & Becerril examines new issues related to the unity of invention of PCT national phase applications in Mexico and offers advice to patent applicants
Luis Corona of Dumont Bergman Bider & Co looks at the potential dangers of recent changes regarding the recognition of trade mark rights in Mexico
Enrique Diaz and Paolo Massimi of Goodrich Riquelme & Asociados look at the most common misunderstandings about trade mark maintenance in Mexico
Gustavo Alcocer and Enrique Lara of Olivares & Cia explain how a new law on personal data protection could affect medical testing, and propose some solutions
Sergio Silva of Silva and Associates sets out the myths and realities of the protection of famous and well-known marks in Mexico
Rodrigo Calderon Ponce of Uhthoff Gomez Vega & Uhthoff explains how some pharmaceutical patents are being enforced disparately in Mexico according to authoritarian and subjective classifications
Read this year's INTA Daily News - published daily by Managing IP direct from the 134th INTA Annual Meeting in Washington DC
May 2012
Do you want to be famous?
Famous, well-known, notorious, reputed: everyone wants enhanced protection for their trade marks. But should they, and what does it mean if it is? Emma Barraclough explains
Will the new post grant and inter partes review proceedings result in more litigators practising pro hac vice before the USPTO?