Practice Areas: Formal requirements for filing patent applications, designs and utility models

  1. Name, nationality and domicile of applicant and inventor(s).
  2. Title of the application.
  3. Country and filing date of priority application, if applicable.
  4. Power of attorney.
  5. Assignment document, if applicable.
  6. Formal drawings.
  7. Priority documentation.

Formal Requirements for National Phase Applications Field Under PCT

  1. Copy of the Wipo publication, with international search report.
  2. Power of attorney.
  3. Formal drawings

Requirements for an Invention to be Patented under the Industrial Property System in Mexico
Invention shall be novel. This requirement means that protection is given to something novel, this is, something that is not included within the state of the art, being understood as state of the art, the aggregation of technical knowledge that has been made public by means of an oral or written description, by commercial use or by any other means of dissemination or information, within the country or abroad.

  1. An inventive activity shall have been existed for this purpose. In other countries of the world it is known as "non-dubiousness". Invent activity is understood as the creative process whose results may no be evidently deduced from the state of the art in a manner obvious to and expert on the subject.
  2. Invention shall be susceptible of industrial application. It shall be understood as the possibility the invention be produced or used within any economic activity.
  3. Invention Shall fulfill with patentability requirements stipulated by Industrial Property Law.