Iran overhauls IP system
16 May 2008
Peter Ollier, Hong Kong
Iran’s parliament has approved a new law that will overhaul the country’s IP regime by introducing provisions for industrial designs, substantive examination of patents and tougher criminal penalties for IP infringement, and amending the trade mark system
The Iranian parliament passed the Patents, Industrial Designs and Trademarks Act on January 22 2008 and the government published it on April 20.
Seyed Kamran Bagheri, head of the IP department at the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry in Tehran and a partner at New Way Intellectual Property and Technology Institute, told Managing IP that...
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