Associate services
You hold the client relationship. We handle Mexico — flat associate fees, direct contact with the attorney on the file, and reporting you can forward to your client without rewriting it.
Mexico has been a party to the Madrid Protocol since 2013, and IMPI examines every designation on the merits. Four features of Mexican procedure catch foreign firms that try to handle a refusal from abroad.
Every application and every submission to IMPI must be in writing and in Spanish, and any document in another language must be accompanied by a translation (article 13 of the Mexican Industrial Property Law). A response drafted in English is not a response.
A notification takes legal effect on publication in the Industrial Property Gazette alone, independently of whether the courtesy notice was sent or received (article 20). If nobody is watching the Gazette for your file, the term runs anyway.
IMPI grants two months to answer a requirement, an impediment or an opposition (article 225). A further two months is available automatically, with no request needed, provided the fee for the month of compliance is paid (article 226). Miss both terms, or fail to file proof of payment, and the application is deemed abandoned.
If the mark is modified, or goods or services are added or substituted in order to overcome the impediment, the application becomes a new filing: new fee, fresh publication, and the filing date becomes the date of that new filing (article 227). The instinct to simply amend the specification can cost the priority date.
Quoted per action before we start, separate from our published direct-client rates. No hourly surprises and no per-page charges.
We do not approach your client, before, during or after the matter. Reporting goes to you.
You correspond with the attorney who prepares the submission, with replies in under 24 business hours.
Written in English, with the ground and the article cited, so you can pass them to your client as they are.
Yes. Foreign individuals and foreign companies can own a Mexican registration outright. What is required is a Mexican address for service, which we provide as your representatives, and a power of attorney in our favor. We send you the form and tell you exactly what formalities it needs.
The same business day, if you write to us with the international registration number or the Mexican file number. Terms expressed in months run date to date and include non-business days, and they start on the business day following the day the notification takes effect (article 21) — so the first thing we do is confirm the exact expiry against the Gazette.
Yes. Our correspondence with you is in English; the filing itself is in Spanish, as the law requires.
The international registration or Mexican file number, a copy of the office action if you have it, and the applicant details as recorded. The power of attorney can follow.
We run a conflict check before accepting any instruction and tell you the same day if we cannot act.
Tell us the international registration number or the Mexican file number and what the office action says. We come back with the deadline, the arguments available and a flat fee.
Molsam Advisory · Calle Louisiana 80, Col. Nápoles, Benito Juárez, 03810, Mexico City · +52 55 7365 9485