مبحثي از مباحث حقوق اقتصادي: استانداردسازي محصولات و چالش هاي حقوق مالكيت فكري

Product Standardization and the Challenges Related to Intellectual Property Rights

Standard plays a critical role in todayʹs life and its importance is increasing in different aspects of our day to day life. However standardization process and the use of the public interests of standard conflict with the private interests of intellectual property rights owners, in particular patent owners. The mentioned conflict makes this question that how does the conflict arise and what is the solution. Since standardization has been studied mainly in economics, there are no significant and deep legal studies on the relation between IPRs and standardization and the conflict between them. Therefore, this article surveys this relationship and considers the situation of the topic in Iranian Law