Mexico City, August 13th, 2020. As a result of the recent Mexican Tax Reform in force as of January 2020, technological platforms owned by non-resident taxpayers with no permanent establishment in Mexico providing directly a digital service within Mexican territory, are subject to Value Added Tax (“VAT”). Also, non-resident technological platforms acting as anRead more
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Mexico City, July 31st, 2020. On July 27, 2020, the National Commission for Regulatory Improvement (“CONAMER”) published, in the Regulatory Impact Manifestation System, the draft Regulation in Matters of Sanitary Control for the Production, Investigation and Medical Use of Cannabis and its Pharmacological Derivatives, presented to regulatory impact assessment by the Ministry of Health,Read more
Mexico City, July 23rd, 2020. The Federal Economic Competition Commission (FECC) made public today that it has initiated the investigation IO-001-2020 for the probable execution of relative monopolistic practices consisting in the establishment of exclusivity conditions related to sales or purchases in the market of manufacturing, distribution and marketing of medical oxygen and relatedRead more
Mexico City, July 10th, 2020. On July 1st, 2020, the new Federal Law of Protection of Industrial Property (FLPIP) was published in the Federal Official Gazette. The FLPIP will enter into force on November 5th, 2020. 1.Preliminary Provisions 1.a.- The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (known by its Spanish initials as “IMPI”), asRead more
Mexico City, July 7th, 2020. With the entry into force of the USMCA (T-MEC) and the reforms to the Federal Copyright Law (FCL), we enter into the regulation of the use of works and contents in the digital environment. These new legal reforms to the FCL impose greater economic liabilities, even criminal liabilities,Read more
Mexico City, July 7th, 2020. On July 1st, 2020, an important reform to the Federal Copyright Law was published in the Official Gazette. Such reform seeks to provide better protection to the holders of copyrights or related rights in the digital environment by regulating technological protection measures, rights management information, the liability of onlineRead more
Mexico City, March 24th, 2020. In order to contribute to the prevention of the spread the COVID-19 virus, the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (MIIP) published yesterday an official notice by which all deadlines and time limits are suspended from March 24, 2020 to April 19, 2020 in all the processes and procedures thatRead more
Mexico City, July 2nd, 2020. On June 30th, 2020, the Federal Economic Competition Commission (“FECC) issued a sixth general resolution (the “Sixth Suspension”) that extends the previous suspension of filing deadlines for certain proceedings. The Commission decided that all deadlines would be suspended from July 1 through 10th, 2020, resuming on July 13th, 2020,Read more
