 According to Nourlaw, the new law, unlike its predecessor gives priority to patents and industrial designs over trademarks and is substantially more scrupulous in the protection of these instruments, as it is of intellectual property rights.According to the "State Registration Organization of Deeds and Properties", a total of 9,570 national inventions was registered in Iran during 2008.Compared with the previous year, there was a 38-percent increase in the number of inventions registered by the organization.