Day two of the Trilateral IP Cup in Mexico City continued with substantive discussion of the pressures reshaping intellectual property practice across the region.
Three themes dominated. Artificial intelligence and what it does to authorship, inventorship and the evidentiary value of generated material. Cross-border enforcement, particularly against counterfeit goods moving through e-commerce platforms, where the infringer, the platform and the buyer are frequently in three different countries. And harmonisation between the Mexican, United States and Canadian systems under the USMCA framework, where the obligations are aligned but the procedures still diverge in ways that catch foreign filers out.
The practical value of these events is not the panels. It is the informal conversations with examiners, in-house counsel and practitioners from the other two jurisdictions, which is where you learn how a rule is actually being applied rather than how it reads.
For clients, that translates into fewer surprises. Knowing that a specification style acceptable in the United States tends to draw an objection in Mexico is the kind of detail that saves a client an office action.