This paper addressed the legal protection provided by Panamanian law to inventions as part of industrial property. At first, the conceptual delimitation of the figure of inventions as an integral part of industrial property is carried out. This delimitation is based on scientific doctrine on the matter. Subsequently, a detailed analysis of the current Panamanian regulations on the matter was carried out. Specifically, the industrial property law was analyzed with its respective reforms. From the normative analysis, the necessary requirements to access legal protection for inventions in the Panamanian legal system are deduced and the scope of this legal protection for the owners of industrial property rights on inventions is also detailed. The regulations were analyzed using the exegetical method of legal analysis. Among the conditions to which the article arrives, it follows that the Panamanian regulations give sufficient legal protection to guarantee the exclusivity of the commercial exploitation to the owners of the inventions and that the Panamanian law is in accordance with the majority tendencies at the doctrinal level.
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