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Gaston Azcarraga was assured the control of 213 brands, 26 commercial notices and records
Mexicana in financial crisis
By: Carlos Damián August 20, 2010
One of their values more important was alienated by a rights transfer
México. - The Mexican Aviation Company (CMA) is not owner of its name neither of its image. 29 of December of 2009 the New Aeronautical Group (NGA) that heads Gaston Azcarraga was assured of the fact that 213 brands, 26 commercial notices and ten requests of record CMA remained under its control and registered them before the Mexican Institute of the Industrial Property (IMPI) to be the responsible for the administration, conservation and defense of these, that represent one of the most important values of the company.

In the contract of rights transfer endorsed 22 and February of 2010 for the notary public Armando Galvez Perez Aragon, CMA was committed to transfer to the NGA any other brand or commercial notice that would have to its favor inside and outside of the country, and remained obligated to not to transact no other brand, but of making it the will have to deliver "without cost neither limitation some" to the NGA. In the CMA document expressed that "is its will to transfer to the free NGA of any charge” all the brands so that solvent the costs that are generated by the administration, conservation and defense.

Upon exploding the CMA crisis, the NGA offered to sell the company to pilots and overcharges in a peso and "to lend them" the brand by six months, what was rejected, since it is just that the one which element gives value to the airline. The history is complex restitution due to the fact that between 2007 and 2008 Mexican sold to Mexican Group of Aviation (GMA) all the brands and commercial notices. However, 18 of December the companies agreed that before a series of non-fulfillments of GMA the brands and announcements would remain under security of CMA until 31 of December of 2009.

The airline remained prevented by the conditions of the contract of requesting inside and outside of Mexico the record of any brand or commercial notice that would have similarity graphics or phonetic with the brands that delivered to the NGA, and of making is obligated it to transfer it to its new owner "without cost neither limitation some". The operation was endorsed by the notary public 103 and the superintendents with registering it before the IMPI were Ricardo Maldonado Yañez, Francisco Javier Moral Christlieb, ex president of the National Chamber of Aero transports, Martha Sanchez Gonzalez Roa, Leonardo Montes Ortiz, and Claudia Velasco Garcia. On the part of Mexican the contract was signed by the legal representatives Jorge Eduardo Gamez Martinez and Ricardo Bastón Aguilar, and by NGA Manuel Borja Chico.

Between the property brands of the NGA appear some so known as Mexican Click, the logo of the eagle with the head in the left or to the right, Mexican VTP, Frequents and the new design, as well as commercial announcements that the have distinguished by almost 90 existence years of the Mexican airline, as: "the first always it will be the first", "flight in it more high", "nobody knows Mexico as Mexican", brands and messages that are used in 20 countries. Emblems that for many years they were Mexican property for many years in Mexico (from 1919 that was established CMA), and in the world now they are industrial property of NGA (December 29, 2009).

CMA announced that from August 15, will remain discontinued its flights to Madrid and London at least until 31 of August. CMA has 18 discontinued routes, in this suspension have remained affected an thousand 504 passing, of those which 933 were "protected”. Deputies of the PRI and PRD indicated that the mercantile contest request of CMA is "a schemed fraud" by the "owners of the company".

Fraud to the stewardesses union (SES) and pilots (APM)
The deputy of the PRI Heliodoro Diaz, referred that the bankruptcy of the airline does not constitute "a simple and flat conflict of worker - employer order, but reflects a structural crisis in the managing" of the company and the absence of the Communications and Transportation Secretariat (SCT) in the watching of its operations. Outlined that if the federal government sold the company "to trifle prices, 165 million of dollars" " in the federal administration of Vicente Fox Quesada are the shareholder those which should answer to a generated crisis artificially by them same.

He referred that the Commission agreed to assume the “widest solidarity" with the pilots, stewardesses and personal of land of CMA "so that the airline not stop of operating and is not affected the presentation of the service to the one which is obligated, as indicates the grant title". Fernando Perfecto Cruz indicated that pilots and stewardesses have supported meetings with investors, "that if the there are and they are interested" in participating in an airline that substitute to CMA. (La Jornada, economía, p. 24, August 13, 2010).