Now it is up to the productive sectors to trust, invest, and, above all, innovate. And it is fair to say that this progress is the result of coordinated work between lawmakers, technical teams, the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), and a growing community of innovators, lawyers, universities, and companies that have insisted for over a decade on the need to modernize the system. The introduction of figures like the provisional patent application is perhaps the most significant change for technological innovation: for the first time in Mexico, an inventor can reserve their filing date with an initial description without needing the complete file and has twelve months to formalize their application. This implies training their members, integrating protection strategies into business models, fostering alliances with universities and research centers, and, above all, betting on projects where innovation is not an adornment, but the core of competitiveness. In parallel, the business sector must move away from a traditional vision where industrial property was a subsequent procedure, almost defensive. If entrepreneurs, chambers, universities, and government continue to synchronize in this new phase, Mexico will not only be able to better protect what it creates, but it will create much more than we can imagine today. The signal has been given. Not as a speech, not as a promise, but as institutional infrastructure. For years, the conversation about industrial property in our country was marked by slowness, uncertainty, and in many cases, a disconnect between those who generated knowledge and those who brought it to market. What was missing - and which is beginning to take shape today - was an institutional framework to accompany that energy. In a global context where competition is not just for manufacturing, but for knowledge, algorithms, designs, data, and business models, having a robust industrial property system is not a luxury: it is a necessary condition to compete. In 2010 we applied for a method patent (3D vision and AI) and the process took 5 years: I celebrate this reform not as an act of complacency but as a recognition of what has been achieved and, above all, an invitation to what is to come for current and new generations. The Institute will now have the explicit obligation to provide legal advice on licenses, assignments, and other instruments for the commercialization of knowledge, and must articulate with the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation to foster innovation from the scientific base. This is relevant for universities and research centers: the path between a laboratory and the market now has a clearer institutional bridge. There is another change that deserves special attention, because it speaks of the Mexico that is coming: the reform explicitly establishes that infringements of the industrial property law are also punishable when committed through the use of artificial intelligence. The law has opened the door and set deadlines with real consequences, but it will be the daily operation, the quality of the examinations, the consistency of the criteria, and the digitalization of processes that will position IMPI as a modern, agile, and internationally best-aligned institution. There are reasons for optimism. Confidence for a university to turn a thesis into a patent and a patent into a company. Confidence for a corporation to invest in local technological development knowing that there is a system that can accompany and protect that effort. AI Factories will be eager to count on the opportunities and business inherent in the development of high-level software, based on inventions that need to be within the legal framework. In parallel, the reform establishes maximum resolution deadlines that IMPI must respect: one year for patents from the start of the substantive examination, five months for trademarks without opposition, and creates a mandatory resolution mechanism: if the Institute exceeds these deadlines, a Specialized Technical Committee can demand a final resolution in ten business days, with administrative consequences for the public official who omits it. It is no minor detail. It is a sign that the Mexican legislator has begun to look forward. In an environment where generative and authentic models can replicate designs, imitate brands, or appropriate industrial secrets at unprecedented speeds, this provision is not symbolic: it is necessary. Because no reform, no matter how well designed, reaches its potential if it is not actively adopted by those who generate value in the real economy. Business chambers today have an extraordinary opportunity: to become catalysts for this new stage. Not just as observers, but as active promoters of a culture of industrial property. The recent reform to the Federal Law on Industrial Property Protection (LFPPI) marks a turning point that deserves to be clearly recognized: Mexico has decided to take innovation seriously. Mexico has talent, a relevant industrial base, high-level universities, and a growing community of technology entrepreneurs. But beyond the technical content, what really matters is the message: Mexico is building confidence. This is the moment when economic actors, entrepreneurs, industrial chambers, clusters, and associations must step forward. The new logic is different: protecting is also building value, negotiating better, scaling with greater certainty, and participating in global innovation chains with a stronger position. The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property, for its part, has an exciting challenge ahead: to consolidate this transformation. It is a measure that recognizes something elementary: technological innovation does not wait for procedures to be ready. Especially the most important technological innovations, those that result in software, come from methods, which can show their effectiveness almost immediately by being able to scale on different platforms at the same time. Because when a country decides to protect its knowledge, it is actually deciding to build its future. Bravo to IMPI and SECIHTI! It is the first time the law has given teeth to institutional punctuality. Confidence for an entrepreneur to dare to protect their idea from day one. The reform also updates the institutional framework of IMPI in technology transfer. The structure is beginning to align. Today, that landscape is beginning to change.
