The Effect of Intellectual Property Rights System on Metropolis Pollution

Although industrialization of societies has have advantages, it has have many challenges such as pollution of metropolis. Policy-makers of different countries have been identifying the factors causing pollution in order to decrease it at national and international levels. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) have positive and negative effects on metropolis pollution because they cause reduction or aggregative of pollution; thus in 2009, WIPO new Secretary-General emphasized on challenges between IPRs and pollution. In spite of this importance, Iranian legal literature has not paid attention to this issue; therefore, this article tries to consider the mentioned challenge. It constitutes two main sections: the first section surveys connection between IPRs and metropolis pollution; and second section considers instances of effects of IPRs on pollution by analytical and comparative approach. Finally, it suggests practical remarks to Iranian legislator, policy-makers and executives in the field of IPRs.