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The first institute of inventors and researchers of Iran (FIRI) was founded in 2006 by Alireza Rastegar and his team with the intention to create a network of Iranian inventors, to support them on all levels of innovation development and to contribute to the growth and updating technology and technical science. The activities of this institute are oriented toward the promotion of innovative work, the innovation system, intellectual property, and entrepreneurship in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It convenes more than 10000 members.
The first institute of researchers and inventors gained the majority of votes and became an official member of The International Federation of Inventor’s Associations (IFIA) in 2006 and Mr. Hossein Vaezi Ashtiani was elected as its president in 2014. Besides, it is a member of the Executive Committee of IFIA

• Increase national potentiality to innovate and invent.
• Disseminate invention and innovation culture and demonstrate its role in sustainable development.
• Raise awareness about the importance of inventions and innovations.

• Support patent registration.
• Organize local and international exhibitions.
• Raise Awareness and provide educational service (World Intellectual Property Day, training courses about innovation, invention and intellectual property)
• Provide Technical support and legal consultation

The most important means of supporting invention culture and the realization of a knowledge-based society is the preservation of innovators’ and inventors’ rights. For the accomplishment of this goal, FIRI launched a project for patent registration for innovators and inventors at related patent offices as well as providing them with the technical and financial support to them till they obtain the patent.

• Motivate national potentialities to create innovations and inventions.
• Contribute to increasing national patents.
• Raise awareness about the importance of inventions and innovations.

• Facilitate procedures of submitting patent applications to FIRI.
• Advise inventors on completion of patent applications.
• Exempt applicant from paying annual charges to FIRI.
• Provide free technical and legal consultation to program applicants

Under the patronage of many Iranian universities and governors, the President of FIRI, a local and international innovation festival is organized every year with the participation of a large number of individuals and corporate inventors including universities, companies, and other institutions concerned with invention and innovation.
This event was held under the name of “AZAD UNIVERSITY INVENTIONS FESTIVAL“and “FAJR invention festival”. It is one of the most outstanding innovation specialized exhibitions known in the Middle East, a forum for transmitting innovation and invention culture to society members, and an attempt to create a relationship between innovators and inventors and the economic companies and corporations to transform the IRAN community into a knowledge-based society.
The achievements of this festival signify the importance of the exhibition’s mission. Furthermore, the number of attendants and beneficiaries which exceeded more than 100.000 persons is another proof, besides the substantial cultural movement dominating Iranian institutions that strive to implement this approach in their own work environments.

• Make use of these international events to showcase and market inventions.
• Acquire expertise in organizing this type of exhibition and capitalize on the experience of exhibitors.
• Compete overprizes and medals awarded to winners.
• Raise the level of Iranian inventors’ culture of invention.
• Establish a bond between FIRI and other world institutions.
• Demonstrate the national capability of innovation and invention.
• recognize the standard of national innovations in comparison to other innovations from around the globe.
• Induce and encourage Iranian innovators to go ahead with innovations.

Most people know well about intellectual property, patents, industrial prototypes and sketches, copyrights, and trademarks, but they still perceive such things as ordinary legal and commercial matters and have nothing to do with their daily life. To narrow this gap, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) decided to establish the World Intellectual Property Day on 26th April of each year. This day was chosen as this was the date on which the convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization entered into force in 1970.

The event is organized each year to raise awareness about the importance of the intellectual property. In 2008, 59 member countries participated in the World Intellectual Property Day. Iran also took part in that event as a country concerned with the dissemination of intellectual property culture in society.

• Raise awareness of how patents, copyrights, trademarks, industrial prototypes, and designs affect our daily life.
• Promote the awareness of intellectual property protection and its impact on supporting innovation and invention activities.
• Celebrate creativity and the contribution of innovators in the development of societies across the globe
• Encourage respect for the intellectual property rights of others.