MEXICO
AMENDMENTS FOR PATENT APPLICATIONS IN MEXICO
The amendments to the Mexican Industrial Property Law involve changes in the process of patent applications, including the following:
- Public file inspection will apply to patent applications as of their publication. Before, the prosecution history of patent applications was confidential until their granting, and bibliographic data and abstract of the invention were the only public information during the publication of the patent application.
- Public file inspection will also apply to divisional applications as of their publication.
- The term to file third party observations regarding patent applications will be of 2 months as of the publication date, instead of 6 months.