Foreign technologies can frustrate travelers

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Attorneys making frequent foreign business trips who expect to use their personal computers and facsimile machines while on the road may find that the technology generally available abroad cannot support these functions. They should therefore carry tone generators to help them with phone mail as well as power adapters or acoustic couplers since the voltage in other countries is frequently different. Confidential facsimile transmission may be impossible since telephone systems standards in foreign countries are often not on a level with those in the US.

International aspects, Telecommunications systems, Practice of law, Telecommunication systems, Facsimile transmission

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Enacted to comply with NAFTA, recent Mexican legislation strengthened intellectual property protection, offering encouragement to foreign investors

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Prior to negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico passed several important intellectual-property laws. The 1991 law for the Promotion and Protection of Industrial Property opened most areas of science and technology to patenting and set the term of patents at 20 years. The law also has trade secret and trademark provisions. Another 1991 law protects computer programs through copyright, and a 1993 law replaced the Mexican Patent and Trademark Office with the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property.

Foreign investments, Laws, regulations and rules, Economic policy, Political aspects, Mexico, Intellectual property

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