ECIJA Mexico welcomed partners from ECIJA Guatemala
The Seminar on the Trademark Opposition System, Panel 8: Relevance of Interaction Between “Processing” and “Jurisdictional” Units in the Study of Opposition Procedures for the Efficient Functioning of the Trademark Registration System, took place on January 24, 2024.
The Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AMPPI) organized the seminar. Mike Margáin, a partner at ECIJA, chaired Panel 8, focusing on the relevance of interaction between “processing” and “jurisdictional” units in the Federal Administrative Justice Tribunal.
The Seminar on the Trademark Opposition System focused on:
• The opposition system in the Industrial Property Law (LPI) of 2016 and in the Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property (LFPP).
• The opposition system: administrative procedure merit, materially jurisdictional procedure, or contentious procedure.
• Effects of the current opposition system on the processing of trademark registrations. Debate on the scope and effects of Articles 224, 225, and 226 of the LFPP.
• Defects in trademark registration arising from improper opposition analysis, effects, and validity of the registration.
• The nature of opposition resolution and its effects, debates on the scope, interpretation, and effects of Articles 224 and 259 of the LFPP.
• Means of challenging the opposition resolution, possible scenarios, and challenges for the judge regarding the scope and reflex effects of determinations. Validity of registration titles and scenarios for the suspension of effects.
• And, of course: “The Relevance of Interaction Between ‘Processing’ and ‘Jurisdictional’ Units in the Federal Administrative Justice Tribunal.”
About AMPPI:
The Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property, A.C. (AMPPI) is a group of scholars who, with full intellectual freedom, defend the premises of copyright, patents, and trademarks as indisputable possessions of humanity in their cultural, social, and economic manifestations.
About ECIJA:
ECIJA, with over 28 years of international professional experience, is one of the benchmark firms in the global market, as recognized by international directories such as Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. It has been acknowledged by The Lawyer as the best TMT firm
in Europe and by the Financial Times as the most innovative firm in continental Europe in 2022. ECIJA is the Ibero-American firm with the greatest presence in Latin America and has offices in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Uruguay.
