Intellectual Property Rights in Mexico
After signing the NAFTA on the 90s Mexico has been through a lot of changes.
First the opening to a freer market even though we did business across-borders before.
Second the implementation of new technologies that will let us keep up with the international competition.
Third the maintenance of all of our signed agreements, basically check that we have enforced the rules as well as improved our economy.
We are going to focus on the 3rd one, specifically on the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) matter discussion.
Mexico has signed with different organizations like World Trade Organization (WTO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and standardized our legal issues about IPR in order to fulfill the international requirements. In theory Mexican laws are the same as the ones signed at the WTO. The main difference is the implementation of them.
Mexico's record regarding protection of IPR in practice has not been implemented, enforced and protected the way it should be. The most affected industries have always been the developers of technology as well as innovators. Some of them are: the pharmaceutical sector, film and music industry, software developers and fashion brands. They are not receiving money back thanks to trademark counterfeiting, copyright piracy, and patent infringements most of them produced in China but highly commercialized in Mexico as well in countries in developing ways.
Mexican companies and individuals have the same degree of intellectual property rights protection as given to foreign companies and individuals.
But as we have a major "Pirate" industry, Mexican culture on IPR, generally speaking, is not conscientious.
First Mexico is not a developer of tech ...