Patents and trademarks, inventions, names of companies and products as well as artistic and intellectual creations, softwares, radio and characters works require to be registered to an authority or decentralized agency to protect against plagiarism.
"The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property is independent (IMPI), while the National Institute of Copyright (INDAUTOR) under the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), this in administrative questions, the first (IMPI) is responsible for industrial, while the second protects all conceptualization applied to a form of expression that can be art, for example, literature, a book, a photographic collection to apply to a company", say Carlos Rojas, a lawyer in the firm Gardhí Vila® Attorneys.
Logotypes can be registered before the IMPI, because they apply as trademarks in certain companies.
"But both are going together and depends on what you are looking for, but each one protects different things: INDAUTOR it protect the work, and IMPI it that the work not to replicate. For example, if I register a 'pear lamp', well, the IMPI try to verify that no one else to make another lamp like this; INDAUTOR is the object, work, design, drawing as something than you conceive, "says the specialist.
There are concepts, works, inventions, distinctive signs, products, artistic expressions, feelings, brands that can be registered in both, but if is an industrial application, IMPI is the most logical and safe office to do the register.