The role and function of "Registration" in the process of transferring of industrial property rights: analysis of registration systems of industrial property rights transactions in the world

Ensuring the safety of industrial property rights transactions has caused that legal systems of the world pay attention to the role of registration systems in these transactions and consider two “declarative” and “protective” functions of registration systems. A comparative study of national laws, considering reports of international organizations and the analysis of the provisions of Industrial Property shows that Industrial property registration systems are indivisible into three categories: Declarative, Constitutive and inposability system. The Constitutive and inposability system provide both “declarative” and “protective” functions of registration systems.