LEGAL PROTECTION OF KNOW HOW

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Unlike patent, there are not clear legal rules to protect know How in Iranian law, then intellectual property law theories require to afford protection to know haw and its owner. The protection rules may be provided under contractual bases or under law. Approaches of legal systems towards The terms and rules of the protection are different. In Iranian legal system some protection rules are found under both contract law and competition law but they do not afford protection completely then providing the supplementary protection rules (especially by jurisprudence) is necessary.

Unlike patent, there are not clear legal rules to protect know How in Iranian law, then intellectual property law theories require to afford protection to know haw and its owner. The protection rules may be provided under contractual bases or under law.

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