Effects of Iran's Accession to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks

International instruments have always been considered as a source of inspiration and a tool for amending laws, so that their accession and acceptance can have several effects on domestic law. Therefore, in this article, we seek to explain the effects of Iran's accession to the Madrid Agreement in relation to the registration of trademarks.

The type of research is theoretical and its research method is descriptive-analytical.
Ethical Considerations In this research, with the originality of the texts, honesty and trustworthiness have been observed.

Nowadays, issues related to property, especially in the intellectual field and issues related to the protection of these rights are of special importance, so that with the formation of intellectual property rights, support for a new part of property in components such as industrial property, inventions, Trademarks, industrial designs and literary and artistic works were made at national and international levels. In this regard, in the international arena of Iran, by joining the Madrid Agreement (1891) and the Protocol (1989), Madrid took a big step towards supporting this type of ownership. Thus, Iran formally accepted and complied with global trademark protection by accepting the rules of the Madrid Agreement.

Iran's membership in the Madrid Agreement has had formal and substantive effects on the manner of protection, the classification system, the prohibition of installing unrealistic signs and solving the problem of modernization of trademark information technology.