A polynomial \(f \in \mathbb {C}[x,y]\) is a Jacobian mate if the Jacobian \(\text{J}(f,g) = 1\) for some \(g \in \mathbb {C}[x,y]\) . It is not known that then \(\mathbb {C}[f,g] = \mathbb {C}[x,y]\) and a conjecture that this is the case is the Jacobian conjecture (JC). In this note we will assume that a counterexample to JC exists and obtain additional restrictions on f.