نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی - پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 استادیار دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد
2 استادیار دانشگاه قم
3 دانشآموختۀ کارشناسی ارشد دانشگاه قم
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Business methods are among the most important assets of companies, whose protection is different in different legal systems. Although trade secrets are the most traditional form to protect business methods, the companies’ willingness to patent inventions in this field has so increased that recognizing them as inventions has become a controversial issue. This paper, with descriptive-analytic method, has studied the possibility of business methods protection in deferent legal systems and concluded that countries such as the United States, India and Japan, have, despite their previous practice, showed much tendency towards protection of business methods as inventions; the position of TRIPS in granting patent rights to inventions including inventive steps and industrial applicability is also favorable to business methods protection. In Iran, business methods are been excluded from the scope of protection. Therefore, considering the deep foundations of Imamia jurisprudence in protecting people's material and immaterial rights, it is necessary for the legislator to add an article to protect business methods or remove its exclusion, at least, with regard to applicable electronic commerce methods. Finally, if business methods are not protectable in the form of trade secrets or patents, recourse can be made to other forms such as utility models.
کلیدواژهها [English]
الف) فارسی و عربی
ب) منابع لاتین