Revista de la Facultad de Jurisprudencia

59-71

Authors: Cynthia Mishel Gudiño Flores

Intellectual Property is continuously present in different manifestations of daily life. However, not all people fully understand what this means, especially for authors of artistic or scientific creations, or for inventors. Given this scenario, it is essential to claim the role of the creator and its economic impact on society; in order to increase the incentives to materialize creative ideas of the human intellect that, inevitably, contribute to the production of science and culture.

96-128

Authors: Valeria Monserrath Sánchez Morales

States comply with international treaties because they have negotiated, signed and ratified them; however, organised armed groups are not part of these processes and still have an obligation to comply with basic rules of war. This document argues that the Internacional Humanitarian Law must be respected by all those involved in a conflict; besides, it provides arguments for organised armed groups to commit to a norm that they have not directly accepted. International Humanitarian Law as an erga omnes norm shows a specific nature and application, which is why it applies to all citizens, it is a customary norm for which it obliges respect for the norm by all individuals. Finally, an armed group regroups citizens of a country, so they must respect the norms established for the State

165-195

Authors: Jorge Núñez Grijalva, Daniela Núñez Viera, Dayana Madrid Villacís

The denominations of origin and geographical indications, as distinctive signs, occupy a prominent place as an element of the impulse to the economic development of a given territory, since through them the development and marketing of high-quality products and differentiation, which in turn, allows reaching significant levels of commercial and tourist positioning for the place or region of its origin, as well as the generation of new sources of direct and indirect employment, increasing foreign exchange income from exports, the increase of State tax collection, among other socio-economic benefits. Thus, designations of origin and geographical indications are considered elements of economic development within the productive policy of a State. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to analyze the denominations of origin and 166geographical indications as a specialized category within the field of Trademark Law and Intellectual Property Law. It is relevant for a better understanding of how these concepts developed in Ecuadorian legislation. While for determining the options presented by the local legal framework promoting its development and use. Moreover, as those elements that the State should consider for taking advantage to promote national growth. Then the exegetical-critical method has been used, through is introduced a doctrinal and normative approach.

223-247

Authors: Raúl Alexander Velasco Chávez

This note goes around the role of industrial property. Furthermore, it shows some arguments from the philosophical and socio-political perspective. The emerging questions seek to discuss whether or not the casuistic analysis determines if the Law denotes a hypotactic behaviour towards capital or whether it would be appropriate to define the Law (of Intellectual Property) as a new expression of capitalist servility