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Our firm is committed to developing the strongest group of legal professionals to manage the level of complexity and interdisciplinary orientation that clients require. During the first decade of the 21st century, the team successfully led efforts to reshape IP laws and change regulatory authorizations procedures in Mexico, not only through thought leadership and lobbying efforts, but the firm has also won several landmark and precedent-setting cases at the Mexican Federal and Supreme Courts levels, including in constitutional matters.
Some of our clients have been asking for our assessment in connection with information they have received from certain Mexican colleagues concerning the declaration of actual and effective use which will be required ...
Some of our clients have been asking for our assessment in
connection with information they have received from certain Mexican
colleagues concerning the declaration of actual and effective use
(DOU) which will be required as from August 10, 2018 for registered
trademarks in Mexico.
Such colleagues are absurdly urging trademark owners to file the
DOU for trademarks which registration was granted on May 10, 2015
onwards. This date is completely non-sense as the new provision of
the Mexican IP Law establishing the filing of the DOU will apply
only to trademark registrations that will be granted as from August
10, 2018. For those registrations the DOU must be filed within the
three months following the third anniversary of the trademark
registration as counted from the date of grant. For example, for a
registration that will be granted on August 11, 2018 the DOU must
be filed anytime between August 11, 2021 and November 11, 2021.
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