Petroleum University of Technology Petroleum Business Review 2645-4726 10 1 2026 02 01 The Protection of Intellectual Achievements in the Oil Industry 17 26 234332 10.22050/pbr.2025.548929.1407 EN Alireza Soori Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran 0009-0008-4523-6267 Mohadeseh Harati Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law and political Sciences, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran 0009-0008-3948-503X Mohammad Hadi Mirshamsi Professor of Law, Faculty of Law and political Sciences, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran 0000-0001-9122-2626 Journal Article 2025 09 23 The need to speed up the creation of innovation in the oil industry and support it properly in order to respond to the increasing needs of the world today has caused activists in this field to use various forms of protection. Patent systems and trade secrets are the main ways of protecting intellectual achievements in the oil industry. In recession conditions such as the Corona epidemic, which had a negative impact on the production and income generation of oil companies, intangible assets such as trade secrets or registered inventions could be a very good source of income for these companies. The complexity and longevity of technology in the upstream field of the oil industry has caused the reluctance of companies active in this field to register patents, which will slow down the dissemination of knowledge, creation and development of innovation. Therefore, due to the necessity of energy production, lack of resources and the need for complex and combined technologies in this field, patenting becomes inevitable. https://pbr.put.ac.ir/article_234332_5a2d2a54675f616e7fdc19a45ceb3f6b.pdf