Since the amendment to the Article 128 of the Industrial Property Law, the Declaration of Use became mandatory for trademark owners in Mexico, and not filing it under the terms established by Law, represents an expiration cause of trademark registrations.
The Congress of the Union approved the Organic Law of the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration, ordained in the Federal Labor Law reform, in order to start operating in 2020.
Today, October 23th 2019, the Mexican Official Standard on psychosocial risk factors at the workplace: NOM-035-STPS-2018, on identification, analysis and prevention of psychosocial risk factors in the workplace, enters into force.
The Unit of Measurement and Update (UMA) cannot be applied to determine the estimation of retirement pensions; since these are benefits of a labor nature, they must always respond to the Minimum Wage.
On September 9th, 2019, the amendment to the Federal Law for the Prevention and Identification of Operations with Resources of Illicit Origin that considers virtual assets transactions as a vulnerable activity in terms of money laundering entered into force.
On April 15th, 2019, the resolution by means of which several debts, tax penalties, surcharges and expenses of execution of ordinary contributions are canceled and a variety of administrative facilities is given, was published in the Official Gazette of Mexico City.
The general regulations on money laundering were published on April 16th, 2019. These provisions establish self-regulation programs for the subjects that carry out vulnerable activities and that are not up to date with their obligations.
On April 9th, 2019, was published in the Federal Official Gazette the notice by means of which the investigating authority of the Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE by its acronym in Spanish) reports the initiation of an investigation by the possible commission of absolute monopolistic practices in relation to the production, distribution and commercialization of maize flour in Mexican territory.
The Amends to the Industrial Property Law of May 18, 2018, incorporated the possibility of requesting the registration of non-conventional trademarks in Mexico, by modifying the definition of “trademark” as follows: “It is understood by Trademark, all sign perceptible by the senses and capable of being represented in a way that allows to determine the clear and precise object of protection, which distinguishes products or services from others of the same species or class in the market.”
The Constitutional amendment will extend the reach of causes that extinguish the ownership of assets. Likewise, the constitutional amendment of the subsection XXX of the article 73 will empower the Congress to elaborate an act regarding the extinction of ownership.
On March 5th, 2019, was published in the Federal Official Gazette the notice by means of which the investigating authority of the Federal Economic Competition Commission reports the initiation of an investigation by the possible commission of relative monopolistic practices on the liquefied petroleum gas industry in Mexican territory.
