• IPOPHL adopts EU trademark database, ensuring certainty and ease in application

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines’ (IPOPHL) online trademark filing tool is now using the European Union’s (EU) harmonized database of goods and services (HDB), currently the largest multilingual trademark classification database in the world.

• IPOPHL adopts new search techniques to ensure novelty of innovations

Over 100 patent examiners from the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) were recently trained to keep in step with new search techniques adopted in certain scientific literature databases, ensuring the novelty of innovations approved for intellectual property (IP) protection by the Office.

• IPOPHL sustains youth program amid pandemic

To IPOPHL, integrating IP education into the secondary school curriculum is essential for sustainably cultivating creativity and innovation within the country.

• IPOPHL guides HEIs in drafting IP policy

In a bid to equip private higher education institutions (PHEIs) in the Philippines to develop their own intellectual property (IP) policy, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has been holding the “Webinar on Intellectual Property (IP): IP System and IP Policy Development Workshop” for select PHEIs.

• IPOPHL tops select WIPO efficiency indicators on int’l patent authority operations

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) is one of the top performing international patent authorities in terms of completion and transmittal of international search report (ISRs) to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), according to WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Yearly Review 2021.

• IPOPHL backs incubation program newly opened for PH startups

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) is calling for startup applications to a recently launched incubation program seen to help increase the transfer of patented technologies to benefit local startups.

• InvestEd: A brand investing in education and IP protection

As the pandemic weakened many families’ economic capacities, it is feared that the population of dropouts and out-of-school youth have been pushed higher, in turn creating wider vacancies for higher value-added jobs in the long term.

• BOC seizes P7-B fake goods in Pasay warehouse

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) reported on Saturday the recent apprehension of various counterfeit items worth PHP7 billion in Pasay City.

• Community in Occ. Mindoro lists intellectual property rights for distinct bamboo crafts

A bamboo community in Occidental Mindoro has filed with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) an intellectual property right (IPR) claim over their distinct bamboo crafts that have raised their income opportunities.