01874nas a2200145   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100001900043700001900062245009900081856014900180300001200329490000700341520138000348       2023                            d1 aP.P.O. Alberto1 aS.S.C. Quishpi00aChallenges of the protection of traditional knowledge through intellectual property in Ecuador  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85150921827&doi=10.31876%2frcs.v29i1.39750&partnerID=40&md5=c2ac560ea82a83b8f9d511038dee8e76  a262-2760 v293 aThis article focuses on the legal protection of traditional knowledge through the intellectual property system according to Ecuadorian law. Its objective is to assess the main challenges of the legal protection of traditional knowledge in Ecuador, based on the Organic Code of the Social Economy of Knowledge, Creativity and Innovation, promulgated in 2016. In this legislation, in addition to establishing norms Typical of the classic intellectual property system, the protection of the collective rights of communities over their traditional knowledge was incorporated, based on a sui generis system, with certain similarities to the proposal for an International Treaty by the World Intellectual Property Organization.. Regarding the methodology, it starts from a theoretical legal investigation, with a qualitative approach, combining the methods of analysissynthesis and historical-logical, with others, such as the exegetical, using documentary review. As results, it was recognized that the protection of traditional knowledge by intellectual property in Ecuador, goes through various challenges associated with the interrelation between the different carrier communities, development of awareness, promotion and socialization of collective rights over this knowledge, its identification and due criminal legal regulation of its illegal appropriation by third parties.