The labor of the Intellectual Property Area at VAHG has been centered for many years in the care and strengthening of the Appellation of Origin “Tequila” (“AOT”), through the design of protection strategies and the strive against illegality within the national and international market. In addition, we have focused our efforts in supporting individuals and companies that participate or wish to participate in the Tequila industry, including those involved in plantation, production and commercialization, up to its exportation.

In VAHG we have sought to fight against imitations and products that deceive and endanger consumers, as well as we have undertaken legal means to eradicate counterfeiting and adulteration of product, and mainly, to avoid the illegal use of the AOT.

It is our priority to prevent the misuse of the AOT, by raising awareness and making available to people the necessary information to join the industry and be able to participate within the legal framework and applicable standards, both within Mexico and the rest of the world.

The compliance goal is to protect the safety of consumers, to be able to guarantee the traceability and quality of the product and thus safeguard the health of all people who wish to enjoy a good drink of Tequila.

Therefore, we have provided our services to benefit the different sectors of the Tequila Industry, highlighting activities such as:

1. Drafting of agave purchase agreements and Tequila maquila.
2. Support in the review and drafting of new Co-responsibility agreements for authorized Tequila producers, and their registration with the corresponding bodies. 3. Support for Tequila retailers to properly engage with the Tequila Industry.
3. Drafting of new license agreements for the use of Tequila brands and their registration with the authorities.
4. Obtaining letters of consent for trademarks in countries where the use of Tequila requires compliance with the rules of the Certification Mark.
5. Registration of trademarks for the sale of Tequila in compliance with the applicable legal framework.
6. Support with the issuance of certificates of Tequila exportation.
7. Review ofcompliancerequirements within the legal framework for Tequila products and products with Tequila as an ingredient.
8. Counseling on product labeling matters.
9. Counseling on the engagement of foreign brands, usage rules, Tequila exports, among others.

In VAHG we provide guidance and counseling services for the proper engagement and integration with the Tequila Industry and derivative services, such as those mentioned above, accumulating more than 30 years of joint experience in the field. For more information regarding the legal framework of Tequila, or a quote on our professional services, VAHG’s Intellectual Property team is at your service.

For further information, please contact:

**The publication of this document does not constitute legal, accounting or professional advice of any kind, nor is it intended to be applicable to particular cases. This document only refers to laws applicable in Mexico.

Mental health and well-being are essential for the professional development of lawyers. The legal profession can be highly stressful, demanding, and emotionally exhausting, which can have a negative impact on the mental health and well-being of lawyers. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified these challenges, with the transition to remote work and the lack of social interaction.

It is important to note that good mental health and well-being not only benefit the individual but also the company, as it can improve productivity, reduce absenteeism, and improve the quality of work. Some recommendations to improve the well-being and mental health of lawyers are:

1. SET TIME BOUNDARIES to balance work and personal life.

It is recommended that lawyers establish realistic limits on work and rest time to avoid burnout and stress. This allows them to rest adequately and balance their personal and professional lives.

2. REGULAR EXERCISE (STAY ACTIVE) to improve mental health.

Lawyers can incorporate an exercise routine into their daily lives to improve their physical and emotional well-being. Regular exercise can improve mental health and reduce stress.

3. RELAXATION PRACTICES: Meditation and relaxation exercises to reduce stress and anxiety.

Relaxation and meditation practices can help reduce stress and anxiety, improve mental clarity, and increase resilience. Lawyers can incorporate these practices into their daily lives to improve their emotional well-being.

4. LEARNING TO DELEGATE tasks to reduce workload.

5. SUPPORT NETWORK to reduce stress and anxiety.

It is important for lawyers to have a support network. Connecting with other lawyers and sharing experiences can be helpful in reducing stress and anxiety.

6. DIGITAL DISCONNECTION: taking time to disconnect from work.

Taking time to disconnect from work can help reduce stress and improve productivity. Lawyers can schedule regular breaks in their daily lives to avoid fatigue and burnout.

7. SETTING REALISTIC GOALS to avoid excessive anxiety and stress.

Lawyers may feel pressure to meet high expectations and tight deadlines, but setting realistic goals allows them to focus on the most important tasks and reduce their workload.

8. SEEKING PROFESSIONAL HELP if necessary.

In some cases, stress and anxiety may be too much to handle alone. Lawyers should be willing to seek professional help if they feel they need additional support.

In conclusion, mental health and well-being are crucial for the professional development of lawyers. By following these recommendations, lawyers can improve their emotional and physical well-being, which in turn can improve their productivity and quality of work. By incorporating these changes into their lifestyle, lawyers can improve their ability to handle stress and have a successful and satisfying career

World Intellectual Property Day

World Intellectual Property Day was established for the first time on April 26, 2000 by the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), with the purpose of promoting and disseminating innovation and creativity internationally.

The dissemination of Intellectual Property is a key exercise in the development and protection of technology, science, art and commerce, since it is the area of Law that studies how to protect ideas in each of these branches that are highly relevant to the lives of all people.

This year 2023, the theme of World Intellectual Property Day is “Women and Intellectual Property: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity”, where WIPO “celebrates the can-do attitude of women inventors, creators and entrepreneurs around the world and their pioneering work”. This event is an opportunity to commemorate creators, innovators and those who drive science and technology in the world.

The focus of this year’s event is that according to WIPO figures, the percentage of patent ownership filed by women since 2020 is 16.5%. In Mexico, the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (“IMPI”) calculated in 2021 that women file 34% of trademarks, and women made only 14% of inventions .

In VAHG, we join the commemoration of this event and take the opportunity to offer our Intellectual Property services to promote the protection of trademarks, patents and inventions, trade secrets, copyrights and related rights, reservations of rights, and advice on protection of appellations of origin and achieve greater participation of women inventors, creators, artists and entrepreneurs in Mexico and worldwide.

In case you require additional information or if you would like VAHG to provide you with advice for the protection of Intellectual Property, whether as a trademark, invention, copyright or any of the above listed, please do not hesitate to contact us.

** The publication of this document does not constitute legal, accounting or professional advice of any kind, nor is it intended to be applicable to particular cases. This

document only refers to laws applicable in Mexico.

For further information, please contact:

Mariana González Sánchez

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On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

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But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

On the other hand

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

On the other hand

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

On the other hand

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

On the other hand

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.