Resumo

BARCENAS ARGUELLO, Rosa Josefina; MANZO RAMOS, Fernando  e  MENDEZ CADENA, Esther. La gestión del conocimiento tradicional y su relación con los derechos de propiedad intelectual: El caso del maíz criollo en una comunidad maya. Bol. Mex. Der. Comp. [online]. 2008, vol.41, n.123, pp.1209-1232. ISSN 2448-4873.

In Mexico, the actual legaly figures taht bestow intellectual property rights -origin denominations. Patents, industrial secret, vegetable varieties- are not enough to cover the traditional knowledge, since this is not considerate a formal knowledge for lacking systematization, experimentation, validation and written registration. The article purpose is to show that the traditional knowledge has process and create products and subproducts. The field data and a review of the actual legislation in the matter of intellectual property rights, give elements to affirm that exist incongruity between the international treats and agreements ratificated by Mexico and the juridical Mexican corp.

Palavras-chave : management of knowledge; intellectual rights; process and products.