A comparative study of the legislation and its impact on the patent process, with a case study of the same invention in Iran and the United States

Statistics on registration function of Iranian patent office shows that the number of registered inventions has reduced between 1386-1393. The number of issued patents from 10346 in 1387 reduced to 3436 patents in 1392. This is while at the same time from 2008-2013 the number of Iranian patents registered in USPTO increased from 2 to 40. On the other hands there are many problems with commercialization of inventions in Iran and more than 90% of registered patents remain in the archives and never gets a way to the trade.
But what are the reasons? This article studies one of the probable reasons, legal defects on patent registration. So a comparative study on the patent Laws of two countries has been done. In this way it studied the laws and the issued patents from the two offices which are analyzed by technical expert. And it is proved that how different legal text effects the function of the patent systems.