Patent application filings for computer-implemented inventions have increased considerably in Mexico.
Patent application filings for computer-implemented inventions have increased considerably in Mexico.
This has forced the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (MIIP) to reconsider its strategies for assessing the patentability of such inventions and to try to get its patentability criteria to resemble, as much as possible, the criteria developed and used by foreign patent offices.
Several controversial issues surrounding how these new technologies should be assessed have been raised in Mexico. Although MIIP bases its decisions primarily on the criteria established by the European Patent Office, there are differences of opinion.
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