A comparative study of preventive measures against Infringement of intellectual property in iran's legislative criminal policy and the WTO dispute settlement procedure

Intellectual property rights enable an individual or organization to create economic value through its innovations in specific areas. iran's legislative system has accepted intellectual property rights and, in order to guarantee their implementation, has provided some guarantees for criminal executions; but the main question is, given the high costs of criminalization, has it also taken precautionary measures in parallel or not? based on this and by adopting a comparative approach in the present research, the main question can be asked as follows : what is the pozition of preventive measures against intellectual .

Examining the various lawsuits handled by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body in the field of intellectual property rights, it is determined that it has repeatedly called on member states to take measures to prevent violations of intellectual property rights and standards; However, there are exceptions in this regard for example, regarding the inventions of drugs that appeared in the case of generic drugs. in the legislative criminal policy of Iran, there are few examples of preventive measures against the violation of intellectual property rights. The most important of these are the interim injunction in the Code of Civil Procedure, the publication of a sentence in the Law on the Protection of the Rights of Authors, Writers and Artists, and the provision of civil liability for infringers of intellectual property rights in order to prevent wider violations of these rights;