The Regulations to the Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property (LFPPI) are now in force. If you have an application pending or a portfolio to maintain, the practical rules have changed.
What Regulations do
The statute sets out rights and obligations. The Regulations set out how they are exercised: what a submission must contain, how deadlines are counted, what evidence is admissible, how electronic filing and notification work, and what happens when a formality is missing.
In day-to-day practice the Regulations matter more than the statute, because most applications are won or lost on procedure rather than on substance.
What to check now
If you have a pending application, confirm that the response deadlines you are working to still match. If you manage a portfolio, review the declaration of use and renewal calendar. If you have been served an office action, check the current requirements for the response before drafting it.
Why this affects foreign applicants particularly
Notification and representation rules are precisely the areas where an applicant without local counsel loses a case without ever seeing it. A notification is validly served, the deadline runs, and the file closes.
If you hold Mexican registrations and are not sure whether anything needs attention, a portfolio review is a short exercise and it is better done now than after a deadline passes.