In addition to Industrial Property Rights known throughout the world, such as patents, utility models and industrial designs andtrademarks, commercial names, commercial notices and names of origin, the concept of industrial or trade secrets exist inMexican law as “Information of industrial or commercial application that is safeguarded by a company or individual inconfidential form that signifies the opposition or maintenance of a competitive or economic advantage against third parties incarrying out economic activities and with respect to which the owner had adapted means or sufficient systems to preserve itsconfidentiality and restrictive access to same”. Certain industrial and commercial companies have developed techniques,methods or production processes, these are forms of distribution, which signify competitive advantages against other companies,which has caused such techniques, methods or forms to be subject to a system of reservation and confidentiality that Mexicanlaw protects as legal rights. One of the requirements in order to obtain protection under Mexican law is that trade secrets must bekept confidential. Trade secrets protected by law must be contained in objective form, such as documents, electronic or magneticmedia, optical discs, microfilm, motion pictures and other similar forms. The information contained in such expressions may notbe divulged, unless the person receiving such information are required to have it in order to do their jobs and such individualsmust maintain the information they receive as confidential. Mexican law contains sanctions against the improper appropriationof industrial or trade secrets and provides for payment of damages and penalties, including criminal penalties for violators whoreveal secrets or who could benefit from illicit revelation of such information.

Capacitation is the learning process through which individuals improve their professional or technical skills, while training isunderstood as the teaching of abilities and skills. Capacitation and training have as their purpose the improvement of the generalperformance of labor. Capacitation has fallen upon the employer as an obligation and has been converted into an importantfactor of productivity. Its importance is such that the Mexican Constitution establishes an obligation on employers, in whateverthe activity may be, to provide its employees with the capacitation or training in the workplace. The Mexican Federal Labor Law(Ley Federal del Trabajo) itself contains detailed regulations for complying with this obligation, which among other purposesseeks to prevent workplace accidents. In order to comply with this obligation, employers are required to form within theiroperations missed commissions of capacitation and training that oversee the correct implementation and operation of the trainingsystem, as well as procedures that must be implemented in order to improve capacitation and training of employees. Thesecommissions, based on their mixed character must be made up of equal numbers of representatives of the employer and theemployees, who are required to meet in order to ensure compliance with and development of company capacitation and trainingprogram. The proper application of such regulation, in addition to raising productivity and improving professional and technicalcareer formation, may serve to free the employer of various legal liabilities.