Measuring the Strength of Iran's Patent Rights by Focusing on Iranian Patent Act 2008

For studying the effects of IPRs, measuring the strength of intellectual property rights can be an important step and by making the protections of intellectual property rights quantitative one can study and classify each country’s level in protecting the granted rights. It’s also an important issue, in the common fields of law and economy to study these rights studies, especially for the global scope of the economic researches. The output data will help in many ways in analyzing countries promotion and making suitable decisions for both economic and politic affairs. This paper will first introduce the most general measuring indexes for the determination of intellectual property rights and then using the chosen one, namely GPI which is more accurate than others, the strength of Iranian patent Act 2008 will be measured.