TRADITIONAL MEDICINE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: A PENDING THEME TO RESOLVE IN MEXICO

Sevilla Gonzalez ML; Alvarez Licona N; Alvarez Sevilla R

Volume : VIII, Issue : VII, July - 2018

TRADITIONAL MEDICINE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: A PENDING THEME TO RESOLVE IN MEXICO

Sevilla Gonzalez Ml, Alvarez Licona N, Alvarez Sevilla R

Abstract :

This study highlights the importance of traditional medicine in this century, in poor communities that are far from development and the media. Midwives and practitioners of traditional medicine are the only alternatives for treatment in communities far from technology and development. The traditional knowledge that they have developed from generation to generation is plagiarized, copied and exploited for exploitation purposes. It is necessary to analyze from the ethics of the researcher that the intellectual property of the indigenous peoples must be respected, regulated and protected, so that it is the same community that benefits fromthe dissemination, sale or patent of their ancestral knowledge.