Tehran – Iran has participated in the Strasbourg Agreement on International Patent Classification (IPC), an international treaty that establishes a standardized system for classifying patent models.
Isna is an important step in encouraging patents and supporting Iranian inventors at the national and global level, says Siamak Islami, head of the national intellectual property organization.
Iran is already a member of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). Once a member of the Strasbourg agreement, Iranian inventors can patent inventions in a variety of fields, including mechanics, electricity, energy and other important areas, officials noted.
The treaty will help inventors receive the necessary support in the knowledge stage, background of the invention and accurate submission of documents, and facilitate the process of registering international patents inventories.
WIPO 2024 releases Iran’s ranking based on GII reports
In November 2024, WIPO published its Global Innovation Index (GII) report. It ranks Iran’s innovation capabilities into seven criteria including institutions, human capital and research, infrastructure, market refinement, business refinement, knowledge and technology output, and creative output.
Iran ranks 133 in agencies around the world. In this category, the countries’ global rankings in business, government effectiveness, rule of law, business environment, entrepreneurship police and cultural operational stability were 130, 120, 118, 128, and 85, respectively.
The country ranks 64th in terms of human capital and research criteria. They ranked 93, 109, 67, 66, and 96 in education, education spending, government funding/students, school life expectancy, and student-teacher ratios, respectively.
Iran’s graduates and researchers in higher education, science and engineering, research and development (R&D) are 35, 8, 48, and 47, respectively.
The country’s global ranking in infrastructure is 95. In total capital formation, 5th and 50th place are general infrastructure.
Under the global rankings of 17 market refinement standards, Iran is placed at 70, 58, and 19 in startups and scale-ups, domestic industry diversification, domestic market scales, and market capitalization finance.
Iran ranks 110th in terms of business sophistication. Ranked 86 in women employed with advanced degrees, 82 in public research industry joint publications, 121 in university industry R&D collaborations, and percent in research talent, and companies.
Iran ranks 49th in its output of knowledge and technology. In labour productivity growth, production and export complexity, software expenditures, ICT services export/total trade, they rank 68, 72, 3, and 125, respectively.
By creative power standards, Iran ranks 52nd. In this category, the country is placed 23rd in intangible assets, 1st in trademarks by Origin, 59 in entertainment and media markets, 93 in mobile app creation, 74th in creative goods exports, and 102nd in creative goods and services.
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