The operation against merchandise that enters illegally will continue

Santiago Nieto, head of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), said that the operations carried out by the Federal Government to combat illegal merchandise in the country will continue.

After participating in the presentation of the Study on the situation of organizations that promote entrepreneurship programs for people with intellectual disabilitiesHe stressed that so far products have been seized for a value exceeding one billion dollars.

The operation Cleaning It began at the end of last year, headed by the Ministry of Economy, with the participation of the IMPI, the Secretariat of Defense, the Navy and the Federal Consumer Prosecutor’s Office (Profeco), in addition to governors of various states.

We had five operations, Izazaga 89 was the first, and the most recent in Baja California. In total, goods have been ensured for a little more than one billion pesos.

He said that there is already contact with two other federative entities. I cannot say the data for stealth, but I would expect that next week we would be in one operation and follow it in another.

In these operations, a series of illegal products of Asian origin has been seized, mainly from China.

Strengthen gender equality

In the presentation of the study, it was stated that in Mexico, only 14 percent of the total requested patents belong to women, Santiago Nieto, head of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property IMPI revealed, so it is urgent to strengthen gender equality.

Only 14 percent are of women inventors or groups of women inventors, it is evident that we need to strengthen a route of a gender perspective in the protection of industrial and intellectual property in general, but both industrial and copyright for women for women Entrepreneurs in our countryhe pointed out.