Intellectual, industrial property and copyright policy

Based on international copyright regulations, the journal reserves the economic rights of its publications for open access dissemination, without commercial exploitation or attribution of moral rights.
It is important that authors identify their particular cases of authorship at the article level (see Declaration of Authorship), and at the Intellectual and, above all, Industrial Property level.

Due to the nature of the journal, an important part of its content may be subject to protection before the official Intellectual and Industrial Property registration authorities. By Industrial Property we understand

[...] the set of legal systems composed of Laws, Regulations and International Treaties on which the state is based to grant protection and exclusive use of inventions and innovations used in industrial processes, and distinctive signs on products and services, which individuals, companies or institutions have legitimately developed (IMPI, SE, 2023, personal communication).

For this purpose, the legal figures of protection are: 1) Invention patents; 2) Utility models; 3) Industrial designs [which also include 3.1) Industrial models, and 3.2) Industrial drawings], and 4) Layouts of integrated circuits. Taking into account that these figures are inputs for commercial exploitation and that they merit a protection process, it is the full responsibility of the authors to comply with and accredit all these procedures.

By submitting a manuscript proposal containing one or more materials susceptible to protection, authors acknowledge and accept that, in case of publication, these will be disclosed and disseminated under the Open Access and licensing scheme stipulated by the journal. From the moment of publication, they should consider the time contemplated by the Law for registration.

In case they have decided to register and have the Property Title of any of the figures in question, the authors should indicate it in the last section of the manuscript, in a section called Patents. Secondly, in the Conflict of Interest section, they should declare the corresponding. Finally, they should specify the participation of the authors in the development of this or any of the figures, if applicable.