RIGHT TO INFORMATION IN IRAN'S “INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY REGISTRATION SYSTEM”

Document Type : Research Paper

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Assistant Professor of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The goal of any industrial property registration system is to provide a tool for “accurate information" and "protection". These two functions of the industrial property registration system are called "the right to information". Various systems exist in the initial stage of registration, as well as the recording of subsequent changes and transfers of industrial property rights which raises the questions:  which one of these systems can better provide this right? And how much does Iran's industrial property registration system provide the "right to information"? In response to these questions, the present study, with a comparative and analytical approach, considers the two aspects of the right: "collecting information and facts" and "information retrieval". Thus, this can be concluded that the two systems of initial registration are “declarative” and “examination” systems. The aforementioned system can provide better access to information. If we accept the broad concept of registration, the right of access to information will be provided in secondary registration systems. Iran's registration system has provided the right to information on "gathering information and facts" by accepting the examination registration system at the initial registration stage and the impossibility system at the secondary registration stage. The second aspect of this right, "information retrieval" is provided in the law, but the issues of its implementation in the executive code are not well considered.

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Volume 49, Issue 3
October 2019
Pages 483-502

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