Pipeline Protection and Its Applicability for the Protection of Invention Patents in Ecuador

Abstract

The Andean Community of Nations, since its creation in 1969, has brought many benefits to Ecuador and the rest of its members. However, when we address the invention patents specifically, they have remained paralyzed, although their system it’s functional, among the practical situations it becomes very restrictive because of the normative barriers interposed to those investors and inventors who want to request a priority patent. Be the case, that the principle that the countries that belong to the Andean Community of Nations apply, is not always the best system or the most beneficial, which raises the following question: are there systems that can be applied by the Andean Community of Nations with greater advantages and benefits? The following paper focuses on the specific analysis the case of the Pipeline Protection, as a system that grants major protection to the inventors and better benefits to those countries that enforce it.